[erlang-questions] examples for erlang with joins

[Hynek Vychodil]

This test case is not clear for me:

self() ! {test, test1, test2},
self() ! foo,
    ok = receive
         _X and foo ->
         error;
         X ->
         {test, _, _} = X,
         ok
     end,

Can you describe more verbosely why first pattern should not match.

2009/3/9 Hubert Plociniczak <hubert.plociniczak@REDACTED>

>
>
> 2009/3/8 Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu55@REDACTED>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > receive
>> >   {foo, One} and {bar, Two} when (One > Two) ->
>> >     expr.....;
>> >  ....
>> > end
>>
>> Thiss looks interesting, but could you please describe the semantics
>> of the above example? Does it match for the two messages in sequence,
>> does one of them have to be the first in queue, is order important?
>>
>
> Let's assume that in the mailbox we have messages(from oldest to newest):
> [ {foo, 12}, {bar, 2} ]
> or
> [ {bar, 2}, {foo, 12} ]
> Then both will match because I check all the possible permutations. The
> order is important when we have
> more Joins and it works in a similar way as standard selective receive,
> i.e. the first valid permutation will match.
>
> Here is an extract from my test cases to give you an idea of what I want to
> achieve (should be self-explanatory):
>
>     self() ! foo,
>     self() ! foo,
>     self() ! foo,
>     self() ! foo,
>     ok = receive
>          foo and foo and foo and foo ->
>          ok
>      end,
>
>     clear_mailbox(),  %% purge all messages
>     self() ! {one, 1},
>     self() ! {two, 3},
>     Z = 4,
>     A = 1,
>     ok = receive
>          {two, 3} and {one, Z} ->
>          error;
>          {two, 3} and {one, A} ->
>          ok
>      end,
>     self() ! {test, test1, test2},
>     self() ! foo,
>     ok = receive
>          _X and foo ->
>          error;
>          X ->
>          {test, _, _} = X,
>          ok
>      end,
>     self() ! {test1, 10},
>     self() ! {test2, 15},
>     self() ! {test3, 10},
>     ok = receive
>          {C, X1} and {B, X1} ->
>          try
>              C = test1,
>              B = test3,
>              ok
>          catch
>              error:{badmatch, _} ->
>              C = test3,
>              B = test1,
>              ok
>          end
>      end.
>
> I am also working on Operational Semantics for this extended version of
> Erlang with Joins, but it is still work in progress.
>
> Zvi,
>
> >nice work. Does it work only inside receive or for any pattern match?
> >If it's supporting generic pattern matching, I would suggest, rewriting
> >mochiweb HTML parser, using your join patterns.
>
> This is only designed for matching on the messages in the mailbox.
>
> hubert
>
>
>
>
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