I've been working through the Erlang tutorials in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks using Erlide for eclipse and for the most part all seemed to be ok until i got to the concurrency section.
In this section, the author walks through a simple example
loop() ->
receive
"casa" ->
io:format("house~n"),
loop();
"blanca" ->
io:format("white~n"),
loop();
_ -> io:format("no comprendo~n"),
loop()
end.
When running as suggested by the book i should be able to send messages with Pid ! "someStuff". However when running this, nothing is returned and the debugger requires i kill the process before any activity resumes.
Here's an example of the console. You'll see when i send the message, nothing is returned.
Eshell V5.10.4
(ErlangDay3@Jeff-PC)1> Pid = spawn(fun translate:loop/0).
<0.202.0>
(ErlangDay3@Jeff-PC)2> Pid ! "casa".
Pid ! "hello?".
WhatJustHappened.
This all seems to run perfectly through the command line directly with Eshell (without eclipse and erlide). Could i have missed some configuration somewhere? I'm now completely stumped. I realize that maybe SO is not the best place for a question like this, however i've completely exhausted my google-fu and it doesn't appear that erlide has any forum presence.
Thanks for any and all advice.
In case it helps anything i'm running windows 7 and eclipse (STS, 3.3.0), with Erlang 5.10.4 (R16B03-1)
Thanks for the report!
This was a bug that I was hunting unsuccessfully since a while back, but now I managed to find and fix it. Please try the latest nightly build from http://download.erlide.org/update/nightly