[erlang-questions] Line Receiver example?

[Jarrod Roberson]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Per Melin <per.melin@REDACTED> wrote:

> Jarrod Roberson:
> >  io:format("Received Line:~p~n", binary_to_list(Bin)),
>
> This line is broken. Your process crashes. Do this:
>
> io:format("Received Line:~p~n", [binary_to_list(Bin)]),
>

just for future knowledge why are the [] required around the list?
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