[erlang-questions] [BUG?] superfluous values for io:format cause process to block

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hi,

On 7/29/07, Matej Kosik <kosik@REDACTED> wrote:
>         t22() ->
>             io:format("DEBUG before~n"),
>             io:format("", [whatever]),
>             io:format("DEBUG after~n").

What happens is that the second io:format crashes the process. Try it
in the shell and you'll see the exact error: the format string can't
be empty. You might want to have a "~w" instead.

best regards,
Vlad