[erlang-questions] Do messages casted by Process A always get received before messages called by Process A?

[Geoff Cant]

No, messages are handled in the order they arrive to a gen_* process. So if you (1) call A, then (2) cast A, (1) will be handled before (2).

Cheers,
-Geoff

On 2011-10-19, at 14:46 , Kris Rasmussen wrote:

> Can I assume that casts will be processed before calls in erlang if sent
> from the same process? I would expect this to be the case given that I
> assume the only difference between a cast and a call is that a call waits
> for a response but I certainly could be wrong.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris
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