Programming Elixir

Your Turn

• Exercise: WorkingWithMultipleProcesses-6

  In the pmap code, I assigned the value of self to the variable me at the top of the method and then used me as the target of the message returned by the spawned processes. Why use a separate variable here?

• Exercise: WorkingWithMultipleProcesses-7

  Change the ^pid in pmap to _pid. This means the receive block will take responses in the order the processes send them. Now run the code again. Do you see any difference in the output? If you’re like me, you don’t, but the program clearly contains a bug. Are you scared by this? Can you find a way to reveal the problem (perhaps by passing in a different function, by sleeping, or by increasing the number of processes)? Change it back to ^pid and make sure ...