[erlang-questions] process will stack overflow after received many message?

Jovi Zhang bookjovi@REDACTED
Fri Sep 16 10:38:52 CEST 2011


Hi,
    I am a newbie of Erlang, here I have a question for receive
message in Erlang loop.
    Like below Erlang code, when process receive one message, it will
invoke loop again,
    then it can service like a server, receive message forever.
    BUT is possible that process will stack overflow after receive too
many message? the process invoke loop again and again.

    I saw there have many code write like this in <<Programming Erlang>> book.

loop() ->
    receive
        hello ->
            io:format("hello\n"),
            loop();
        Other ->
            io:format("I don't know what is this message, ~p is ~n" ,[Other]),
            loop()
    end.



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