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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by _untra_ on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:00AM (#14848191)
> 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

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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by velzevur on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:43AM (#14848603)
also not being garbage collected...
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Re:Elixir 1.5 released by latch on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:16PM (#14848941)
String.to_existing_atom/1 is helpful.

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

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