[erlang-questions] Noob Question ...

[Shelby Ramsey]

Hello!

I'm trying to become an erlang convert (from Python) and I do mostly network
programming.

So I wrote up this little tidbit:

-module(test).
-export([client/1]).

client([Port]) ->
    case gen_tcp:connect("127.0.0.1", Port, [list,{packet,0}]) of
        {ok, Socket} ->
            gen_tcp:send(Socket,"auth iltd!dy69?\r\n\r\n"),
            gen_tcp:send(Socket,"event plain text\r\n\r\n"),
            loop(Socket);
        {error, Reason} ->
            print_stuff([Reason]),
            ok
    end.

loop(Socket) ->
    case gen_tcp:recv(Socket, 0) of
        {ok, Data} ->
            print_stuff([Data]),
            loop(Socket);
        {error, closed} ->
            ok
    end.

print_stuff([Text]) ->
    io:format("~w", [Text]).

It compiles ... but when I run ... well ... it spits this:

=ERROR REPORT==== 5-Mar-2009::20:19:27 ===
Error in process <0.30.0> with exit value:
{function_clause,[{test,client,[8021]},{erl_eval,do_apply,5},{shell,exprs,6},{shell,eval_loop,3}]}

** exited: {function_clause,[{test,client,[8021]},
                             {erl_eval,do_apply,5},
                             {shell,exprs,6},
                             {shell,eval_loop,3}]} **


So what did I hose up?  And more importantly ... where is some documentation
re: how to debug the "error report".

Thanks for any assistance!

SDR
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