[erlang-questions] Manually remove a message from Process Mailbox

[Tony Rogvall]

Hi! 
And happy new year.

If you also simulate send you could send with a unique reference:
Replace
	Pid !  Message
With
	Pid ! {make_ref(), Message}

Then you can get the k'th message {Ref,Message} and do a selective receive to remove that message:

	receive
		{Ref,_Message} -> ok
	end

A bit on the heavy side, but fun.  
Handling timeout is a bit more tricky, but solvable with the above schema.

/Tony

On 4 jan 2013, at 20:22, Aggelos Giantsios <aggelgian@REDACTED> wrote:

> Happy New Year to everyone!
> 
> I am trying to simulate the 'receive' expression behaviour.
> I access the process message queue with erlang:process_info(self(), messages).
> Assuming I have selected a message Msg which is at position k in the message list and have safely stored it in a variable,
> is there a way to manually remove Msg from the process message queue?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aggelos
> 
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