Limitations of Targeted Properties
Understand the limitations of targeted properties.
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Limitations of targeted properties
Targeted properties do not allow all the same facilities as we’d get with regular properties. They don’t work well with recursive generators, whether we use ?LAZY or not. Using that combination may yield infinite loops. In those cases, it is best to stick to rather straightforward combinations of default generators.
They also don’t allow the gathering of statistics and metrics using collect/2 and aggregate/2, so any validation and accounting that needs to be done will ...