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		_untra_ on July 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elixir 1.5 released > which I'm realizing we may want in our DSL since we're converting user input strings to atoms careful there. Theres a hard limit on the number of atoms that can be created in an environment, and serializing user input to atoms can get dangerous

velzevur on July 25, 2017 | [–]

also not being garbage collected...

latch on July 25, 2017 | [–]

String.to_existing_atom/1 is helpful.

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/String.html#to_existing_atom/1

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