gzah

gzah

Working with the Process.spawn function

What could possibly be wrong with respect to this code :

defmodule Test do
  def main do
  Process.spawn(self(), Test.test())
  end
  def test do
     IO.puts("Test ok");
  end
end

Error message :

Test ok
** (ArgumentError) argument error
    erlang.erl:2876: :erlang.spawn_opt(#PID<0.102.0>, :ok)

Marked As Solved

NobbZ

NobbZ

You are calling Test.test/0 which prints Test ok and then returns :ok, this return value of Test.test/0 is then passed to spawn/1.

You probably want spawn(&test/0) to pass a “function capture” to spawn/1.

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gzah

gzah

Thanks a lot.

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