[erlang-questions] Issues with stdin on ports

[Robert Raschke]

Having thought about this for a couple of minutes now, and having looked
around for some ideas from other languages, if I had the problem of
interacting with some random piece of software from within Erlang, I would
write a small Jinterface wrapper around ExpectJ or expect4j and take it
from there.

(I suspect that coding a native Erlang based expect clone is non-trivial,
but maybe ripping off some existing code could get you started down that
road.)

Robby



On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Heinz Nikolaus Gies <heinz@REDACTED>wrote:

> I am facing the same issue as Anthony,
> it is rather annoying there are more issues that are involved with Erlangs
> handling of the STD* pipes, i.e. missing a way to terminate a program that
> does not terminate on STDin close. I would not argue 'because it's not in
> Erlang it is not important'. I greatly enjoy that Erlang is not jumping any
> change to change but that argument means nothing would ever get get done :P
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:43, Jesper Louis Andersen <
> jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Anthony Grimes <i@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Sure, that's an option. I'm still unclear why I can do this in every
>> other language I use but not Erlang. I find it hard to believe that all
>> other languages with this capability are doing something utterly stupid,
>> but Erlang, being the best language in the known universe, has gotten it
>> utterly correct. But once again, I'll concede.
>
>
> One thing to muse about is how useful an unimplemented feature is, if said
> language is more than 20 years old :)
>
> Yes, you could add it, and it may make sense to add, but I find it way
> easier to hack pygments to be able to read data in {packet, 4} format.
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