# Proposals: Ideas

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## [Tagged processes in pg module](https://erlangforums.com/t/tagged-processes-in-pg-module/1681)

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**Author:** [@paulozulato](https://erlangforums.com/u/paulozulato)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 1, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/tagged-processes-in-pg-module/1681 "2022-08-01T02:39:19Z")

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Hi all, I’m using the pg module in a project to make use of its amazing distributed named process group feature, but I’m missing something: tagged processes ({Tag :: any(), Process :: pid()}). This would be very useful …

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## [Any chances to support rational numbers in BEAM?](https://erlangforums.com/t/any-chances-to-support-rational-numbers-in-beam/1580)

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**Author:** [@mat-hek](https://erlangforums.com/u/mat-hek)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [July 6, 2022, 9:29am UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/any-chances-to-support-rational-numbers-in-beam/1580 "2022-07-06T09:29:32Z")

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Hey, rationals seem like a natural extension of big integers to big floats. In our use case we need them all over the place as we can’t allow accumulating errors. We use an Elixir library for that, but having rationals …

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## [Use of {continue, \_} in gen\_server's init](https://erlangforums.com/t/use-of-continue-in-gen-servers-init/1437)

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**Author:** [@saleyn](https://erlangforums.com/u/saleyn)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/use-of-continue-in-gen-servers-init/1437 "2022-05-19T04:30:50Z")

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The documentation of gen\_server’s callbacks has options to return a continuation in the form: {reply,Reply,NewState,{continue,Continue}} or {noreply,NewState,{continue,Continue}}, as the result of this PR. The document …

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## [Crypto: AES OFB mode?](https://erlangforums.com/t/crypto-aes-ofb-mode/1286)

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**Author:** [@ausimian](https://erlangforums.com/u/ausimian)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/crypto-aes-ofb-mode/1286 "2022-04-21T22:25:39Z")

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Would the OTP team be open to a pull request that added OFB mode as a supported AES cipher? I have some Elixir code that achieves the same thing via aes\_xxx\_cbc and crypto:exor, but I expect it would be more efficient t…

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## [Httpd connection header bug](https://erlangforums.com/t/httpd-connection-header-bug/1201)

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**Author:** [@mmin](https://erlangforums.com/u/mmin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 11, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/httpd-connection-header-bug/1201 "2022-03-11T14:30:30Z")

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Hi, in reference manual there is a claim that httpd is implemented based on RFC 2616. Based on chapters 2.1 and 14.10, comma-separated list of connection-tokens is allowed. This causes a problem when I want to keep the …

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