[erlang-questions] perform a function on a fixed time interval

[Roberto Ostinelli]

2010/8/24 Hynek Vychodil <
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> use timer:send_interval/2,3

also: can't seem to find in the docs anywhere: what happens if the Pid
the timer is sending a message to crashes? is this detected by the
timer, or will it keep on sending messages to it anyway?