Programming Elixir

Your Turn

The Erlang function timer.sleep(time_in_ms) suspends the current process for a given time. You might want to use it to force some scenarios in the following exercises. The key with the exercises is to get used to the different reports you’ll see when you’re developing code.

• Exercise: WorkingWithMultipleProcesses-3

  Use spawn_link to start a process, and have that process send a message to the parent and then exit immediately. Meanwhile, sleep for 500 ms in the parent, then receive as many messages as are waiting. Trace what you receive. Does it matter that you weren’t waiting for the notification from the child when it exited?

• Exercise: WorkingWithMultipleProcesses-4

  Do the same, but have the child raise an exception. What difference do ...