[erlang-questions] Beginner: What's wrong with this code?

[Steve Strong]

Your spawn command is passing the arguments incorrectly - you need:

 spawn(?MODULE, format_temps, [[{moscow,{f,-40}}, {bangalore,{f,40}}, {wellington, {c,24}}]])

without the outer list, you were trying to call first:format_temps({moscow,{f,-40}}, {bangalore,{f,40}}, {wellington, {c,24}}), which doesn't exist.

Cheers,

Steve
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On 22 Jun 2011, at 11:03, Sid Carter wrote:

> -module(first).
> % call would look like format_temps([{moscow,{f,-40}}, {bangalore,{f,40}}, {wellington, {c,24}}]).
> -export([format_temps/1, start/0]).
> format_temps([]) ->
> 	ok;
> format_temps([City|Rest]) ->
> 	print_temp(convert_to_celsius(City)),
> 	format_temps(Rest). 
> convert_to_celsius({City, {c, C}}) ->
> 	{City, {c, C}};
> convert_to_celsius({City, {f, F}}) ->
> 	{City, {c, (F-32)*5/9}}.
> print_temp({City, {c, C}}) ->
> 	io:format("~p has a temperature of ~w C~n",[City,C]).
> start() ->
> 	Pid = spawn(?MODULE, format_temps, [{moscow,{f,-40}}, {bangalore,{f,40}}, {wellington, {c,24}}]),
> 	Pid.

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