[erlang-questions] Escript and spawn

jm jeffm@REDACTED
Sat Apr 28 03:21:41 CEST 2007


Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

>     #!/usr/bin/env escript
>     
>     -module (test).
>     -export ([ main/1, new_process/0 ]).
>     
>     new_process () ->
>         io:format ("new_process\n"),
>         exit ("Done").
>     
>     main (_) ->
>         spawn (?MODULE, new_process, []),
>         timer:sleep (5000),
>         ok.
> 


First the warning: I haven't used escript.

What happens if you change ?MODULE to test, I'm guessing the escript
doesn't support macro expansion, ie it's a function of erlc.

Jeff.




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