[erlang-questions] handle_info stopped crashing if no match?

[Max Lapshin]

Got it, ok.


On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Fred Hebert <mononcqc@REDACTED> wrote:

> On 02/25, Max Lapshin wrote:
>
>>
>> You should not ever receive unknown messages in your system. Once you
>> start
>> adding silent catch-all clause in your system, it will be hard
>> to stop and hard to find where error begins and ends.
>>
>
> The one exception that comes to mind is a system where each worker is part
> of a broader distributed system where unknown notifications may be coming
> through from other nodes where a code upgrade has taken place before the
> current one.
>
> In such cases, an approach based on logging & keeping on going may prove
> essential to the stability of the overall system.
>
> Regards,
> Fred.
>
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