[erlang-questions] Question on "selective receive"

[Christoffer Vikström]

I think the "zero to inifinity" statement might need some clarification:
The timeout is a 32-bit integer and if you try to set it higher it will
fail with a bad receive timeout value.

receive after 1 bsl 32 -1 -> ok end. will work.
receive after 1 bsl 32 -> ok end. will not.

Cheers!


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Avinash Dhumane <
avinash_dhumane@REDACTED> wrote:

>  Just thought of sharing the information that Joe's book (pp 143-144,
> under section "Receive with Timeout Value of Zero/Infinity") answers this
> question. I had gone over these paragraphs several times in the past, but
> it is only after confronted with a real life situation where these
> constructs require application of mind that these small paragraphs
> illumined their real meaning.
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> Oh, Erlang - you're beauty!!
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> *From:* erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED [mailto:
> erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] *On Behalf Of *Avinash Dhumane
> *Sent:* 19 January 2014 15:58
> *To:* erlang-questions@REDACTED
> *Subject:* [erlang-questions] Question on "selective receive"
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> Can the timeout clause not have a guard too?
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> If it can, what are the semantics of it? I mean, if the timeout occurs but
> guard evaluates to false, what happens to receive? Does it continue to
> block?
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> If it cannot, why?
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> Thanks
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> Avinash
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