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

[Kris Rasmussen]

Geoff, thanks for the response. I think I may have been ambiguous in my
wording. To be more specific, can you tell me if the following is true:

Imagine process A does the following:
call(B, 1)
cast(B, 2)
call(B, 3)

Will B always receive the messages in the order A sent them (1, 2, 3) as
opposed to something like (1, 3, 2) occasionally?


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Geoff Cant <nem@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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).
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> Cheers,
> -Geoff
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> On 2011-10-19, at 14:46 , Kris Rasmussen wrote:
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> > 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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