[erlang-questions] Line Receiver example?

[Geoff Cant]

Jarrod Roberson <jarrod@REDACTED> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Per Melin <per.melin@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Jarrod Roberson:
>> >  io:format("Received Line:~p~n", binary_to_list(Bin)),
>>
>> This line is broken. Your process crashes. Do this:
>>
>> io:format("Received Line:~p~n", [binary_to_list(Bin)]),
>>
>
> just for future knowledge why are the [] required around the list?

Erlang doesn't do varargs, so we use lists as arguments instead
(io:format/2 takes a number of arguments depending on the format string
- io:format("~p", [Arg1]), io:format("~p ~p", [Arg1, Arg2]) not
io:format("~p ~p", Arg1, Arg2) as that would change the arity of the
function from io:format/2 to io:format/3 which does something quite
different).

Cheers,
-- 
Geoff Cant