[erlang-questions] can flush the shell but can't receive from it

[Imants Cekusins]

Btw, a, b are atoms which can't be added, no?
On 17 Nov 2014 22:46, "Steve Vinoski" <vinoski@REDACTED> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:38 PM, <arif@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the simplest of applications that consists of just the skeleton
>> gen_server, registered locally as "server", with one callback implemented:
>>
>>   handle_info({From, A, B}, State) ->
>>     From ! {self(), A + B},
>>     {noreply, State};
>>
>> i.e. a simple adder
>>
>> The supervisor is the skeleton one_for_one supervisor. The application,
>> app, the skeleton application.
>>
>> Here is what I do:
>>
>> 7> application:start(app).
>> ok
>> 8> server ! {self(), 1, 2}.
>> {<0.32.0>,1,2}
>> 9> receive X -> X end.
>> {<0.62.0>,3}
>>
>
> Here you bind X to the tuple value consisting of the server pid and the
> value 3.
>
>
>> 10> server ! {self(), a, b}.
>>
>> =ERROR REPORT==== 17-Nov-2014::22:18:42 ===
>> ** Generic server server terminating
>> ** Last message in was {<0.32.0>,a,b}
>> ** When Server state == {state}
>> ** Reason for termination ==
>> ** {badarith,[{server,handle_info,2,[{file,"server.erl"},{line,98}]},
>>               {gen_server,handle_msg,5,[{file,"gen_server.erl"},{line,
>> 599}]},
>>               {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3,
>>                         [{file,"proc_lib.erl"},{line,239}]}]}
>> {<0.32.0>,a,b}
>> 11> server ! {self(), 3, 4}.
>> {<0.32.0>,3,4}
>> 12> receive X -> X end.
>>
>> and here the shell blocks.
>>
>
> It blocks because you're asking to receive the value of X you bound
> earlier, which doesn't match what's in the mailbox.
>
> --steve
>
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