[erlang-questions] Does Erlang shell evaluate expressions in a separate process?

[Attila Rajmund Nohl]

No. That's why you get a new self(), because the previous shell process crashed.

2009/8/11, Xingzhi Pan <vengeance.storm@REDACTED>:
> Sorry if this is a boring question. I just started with Erlang. I'm asking
> this because I noticed that after every time an exception is thrown in
> shell, self() gives different result.
>
> Thanks,
> Pan, Xingzhi
>