[erlang-questions] erlang sucks

Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) ulf.wiger@REDACTED
Fri Mar 14 10:27:16 CET 2008


Raoul Duke skrev:
>> Assume I am in a receive and in the guard of testing one message I call a
>> function which also receives messages. What happens to the message queue?
> 
> this has nothing to do with the reality of Erlang :-) but presumably
> in a sufficiently powerful type system you could constrain the guards
> to be safe?

Given the state of type checking in Erlang nowadays, this might indeed
be ripe for some research and prototyping.

BR,
Ulf W



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