receive statement in Erlang

[Sean Hinde]

Vance:

> And I can't skip the opportunity to complain about tabs vs. spaces. :)
> You mix them here which I find makes things hard to read.  Especially
> when you aren't consistent!  I know this is my particular rant but let
> me leave you with this:
> 
>     receive
>         Screenpid ->
> 		    	link(Screenpid)
>         end,
> 
> Should be:
> 
> 	receive
> 		Screenpid ->
> 			link(Screenpid)
> 	end,

I really don't think it is possible to nicely format Erlang code without
using spaces. What about:

function_with_lots_of_parameters(Param1, Param2, Parameter_with_long_name,
					   Another_long_parameter,
Final_parameter) ->

And many other times where a bunch of things go across multiple lines but
need to be indented up to their buddies.

Emacs deals with this by tabbing until nearly there and then adding spaces
(all with a single press of the TAB key). It might be even better to set it
up to use just spaces for consistency with other editors but I just use
Emacs..

Regards,
Sean



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