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[Robert Virding]

Hello Luke,

That WAS a cute function, the only thing that could have made even cuter 
was if the receive's were in parallel. Though that wouldn't affect the 
result.

Robert

Luke Gorrie skrev:
> Howdy,
> 
> I just found this function and thought it was cute enough to share on
> a rainy day:
> 
>   %% Map function F over list L in parallel.
>   parmap(F, L) ->
>       Parent = self(),
>       [receive {Pid, Result} -> Result end
>        || Pid <- [spawn(fun() -> Parent ! {self(), F(X)} end) || X <- L]].
> 
> 
>