[erlang-questions] Process declarations

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Joe Armstrong wrote:

> Process declarations:
> Do away with spawn. Replace with a process keyword:
> So that we can name processes. Things without names we cannot talk about.

I think this is a bad idea because it's moving away from the capability
model, where posession of a pid implies permission to communicate with it,
and if you don't have the pid you can't. The pid *is* the name. Also, I'm
not sure how your proposal deals with multiple processes running the
annotated code.

Tony.
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