Thanks, that was it. I was trying some code in the "Concurrent Programming in Erlang" pdf<br>listed on <a href="http://www.erlang.org/download.html">http://www.erlang.org/download.html</a>.<br><br>The sample module (on page 77) is called "timer", which apparent rubs shoulders with "timer" in the stdlib. I changed the module name to "mytimer" and the problem has gone away
<br><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You are probably just trying to use a module name that is already<br>being used for some important system module (
lists.erl is an old<br>favourite). Be glad that it did not load your version instead.<br><br> /Richard<br><br></blockquote></div><br>