[erlang-questions] non-FIFO behavior in process mailboxes?

[Erik Søe Sørensen]

Modeled as synchronous calls how exactly?
If taken literally, it sounds like you're suggesting that the process make
synchronous calls to itself...

Den 27. apr. 2012 21.26 skrev David Mercer <dmercer@REDACTED>:

> On Apr 22, 2012, at 20:38, Michael Turner <michael.eugene.turner@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
> > This bug came out of experimentation inspired by the recent discussion
> > of initializing objects *after* their creation, a topic raised by
> > Richard O'Keefe. And -- waddya know -- the problem here relates
> > directly to his objection to this practice: inconsistent intermediate
> > states. It appears that when you model your objects as processes, the
> > danger is particularly acute.
>
> If you had modeled the the set_arg_to and set_val_to as synchronous calls,
> like your function val_for – and like gen_server's call rather than cast –
> you can still do this.  Though I still agree with ROK.
>
> Cheers,
>
> DBM
>
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