A "sleep" command without "receive"

[Corrado Santoro]

Hi all, 
I've seen that to wait a timeout the statements I've to use are: 
 
receive 
  after T-> ok 
end 
 
I've also seen that timer:sleep/1 implements the same routine... but... 
I use this timeout in a process that, after the timeout, receives something 
from another process. If the sending process sends data before the receiving 
process calls timer:sleep, the latter function returns immediatelly, picking 
also the message. This is *not* the behaviour I want to implement. 
 
The problem is, obviously, that there is a "receive" statement in timer:sleep 
that "steals" incoming messages. 
 
Do you know how to wait a timeout without using "receive"? 
 
Bye, 
-Corrado 
 
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