[erlang-questions] process dictionary, anyone?

Luke Gorrie luke.gorrie@REDACTED
Wed Apr 25 11:02:44 CEST 2007


"Julian Fondren" <ayrnieu@REDACTED> writes:

> Also, the 'random' module inserts random_seed in the caller's
> process dictionary.

.. and has anyone else noticed how fun it is that by default each
process's random-seed is initialized from a constant?

Just a couple of months ago I spawned a dozen processes each behaving
"randomly" and was quite amused when they all did exactly the same
thing :-)





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