[erlang-questions] Completing the thought (a question about receive)

[Fred Hebert]

On 02/18, Donald Steven wrote:
>SO, will the three lines marked "some code I want executed" be executed 
>always, or does a closely following message interrup it and send things 
>back to the 'receive' (leaving some code perhaps not executed)?
>

They will execute. A message is only handled when `receive' gets to be 
able to grab one.