[erlang-questions] closures and list comprehensions

Harold Ship haroldship@REDACTED
Sun Feb 17 23:05:51 CET 2008


Hello

I'm fairly new to Erlang, and I'm just starting to get the hang of it.

I have a question about using spawn/1, giving it a fun which is a  
closure that contains a list comprehension. The example is like this:

my_func([First|Rest]) ->
     Me = self(),
     spawn(fun() -> Me ! do_something([X || X <- Rest, X < First]) end),
     do_something_else(),
     receive
	Result ->
	    do_something_with(Result)
     end.


My question is, in which process is the list comprehension evaluated?  
It seems to me that it should be evaluated in the spawned process but  
I can't reason it out.

Thanks in advance,
Harold Ship



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