[erlang-questions] Efficiency of a list construction

[Pierpaolo Bernardi]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:50, 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.

However, this returns a reversed list, w.r.t.

> 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.

P.