Higher order receieve anybody

[Ulf Wiger]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:11:46 +0100, Tony Rogvall <tony@REDACTED> wrote:

> One idea (tested and implemented) is to use a primitive 
> erlang:signal(Pid,Sig, Info) to send a primitive form of messages. For 
> example message passing could be implemented as erlang:signal(Pid, 
> 'MESSAGE', Message). In Multi Pro Erlang we did the signal dispatcher in 
> C code. In retrospect we should have implemented
> a signal dispatcher / signal_handler in Erlang. This way
> all signals (including messages) would be processed by Erlang code. Then 
> one could implement the link semantics and message reception etc in
> Erlang code!
> The signal handler should be called in the context of the receiving 
> process with some kind of interrupt semantics (when it comes to receive).
>
>
> -module(signal_handler).
> -export([handle_signal/3]).
>
> handle_signal(From, 'MESSAGE', Message) ->
> 	erlang:queue_message(Message);
> handle_signal(From, 'LINK', _) ->
>           erlang:add_link(From);
> ...


Very nice!  (:

/Uffe
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Ulf Wiger, Senior System Architect
EAB/UPD/S

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