See Also

• LFE Style Guide (for conventions on when to use records)
• Maps documentation (for the more flexible alternative)
• The BEAM VM internals (if you want to see how deep the tuple-rabbit-hole goes)
• “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” by Douglas Adams (for existential comfort when debugging nested records)

This guide compiled at compile-time, which is the only time records actually exist. Any runtime resemblance to tuples is entirely deliberate.