Will Erlang R17 still have records?

Question

According to Joe Armstrong:

Records are dead - long live maps !

But according to the EEP for maps:

Maps were not envisioned as a record replacement at first, it was a hopeful requirement added later.

From these conflicting messages, it is unclear to me whether records will still be in R17, or whether they will be deprecated and removed in a future version. Can anyone add some insight?

Answer 1

There is no way they would throw records anytime soon.. There is too much code depending on them.. see http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_17.0-rc1.readme (especially OTP-10652)