[erlang-questions] Efficiency of a list construction

[Kannan]

I saw this function in gen_sctp_SUITE.erl :-(


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED> wrote:

> Kannan,
>
> No, it is not tail recursive.  This is:
>
>     %% @spec() -> [term()]
>     %%
>     flush() ->
>        flush([]).
>
>     %% @hidden
>     flush(Msgs) ->
>        receive
>                Msg ->
>                        flush([Msg | Msgs]);
>        after 17 ->
>                Msgs
>        end.
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 03:45:19PM +0530, Kannan wrote:
> }  Is the following list construction an efficient one?
> }
> }  flush() ->
> }      receive
> }  Msg ->
> }      [Msg|flush()]
> }      after 17 ->
> }      []
> }      end.
>
> --
>         -Vance
>
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