[erlang-questions] pattern matching registered name

[Edmund Sumbar]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM, James Aimonetti <james@REDACTED> wrote:

> rpc/2 expects the first arg into the function to be the first element
> in the response tuple.
> The loop/0 uses self(), which always returns a pid(), not the
> registered name.
> So you call rpc with an atom, and receive a tuple with a pid(). Those
> don't match.
> Your call to rpc/2 hangs because the selective receive in rpc/2 never
> matches (and you have no timeout clause).
>

What's confusing is that the atom apparently resolves into a pid() in the
send expression of kvsx:rpc/2 (adding io:format("reg name = ~p~n",
[whereis(abc)]) to the function returns the pid()), but not in the pattern
tuple of the receive expression.

Anyway, thanks for the replies James and Yogish.

Ed
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