Cryptic Erlang Errors
- by Jim
Okay so I started learning erlang recently but am baffled by the errors it keeps returning. I made a bunch of changes but I keep getting errors. The syntax is correct as far as I can tell but clearly I'm doing something wrong. Have a look...
-module(pidprint).
-export([start/0]).
dostuff([]) -
receive
begin -
io:format("~p~n", [This is a Success])
end.
sender([N]) -
N ! begin,
io:format("~p~n", [N]).
start() -
StuffPid = spawn(pidprint, dostuff, []),
spawn(pidprint, sender, [StuffPid]).
Basically I want to compile the script, call start, spawn the "dostuff" process, pass its process identifier to the "sender" process, which then prints it out. Finally I want to send a the atom "begin" to the "dostuff" process using the process identifier initially passed into sender when I spawned it.
The errors I keep getting occur when I try to use c() to compile the script. Here they are..
./pidprint.erl:6: syntax error before: '-'
./pidprint.erl:11: syntax error before: ','
What am I doing wrong?
