I made a PR that implements this: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12609
On Friday, May 26, 2023 at 10:39:28 AM UTC-7 Noah Betzen wrote: > Erlang's process group module allows adding arbitrary PIDs to a group, > which can be used for things like PubSub: > https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/pg.html > > Registry's register function currently always registers the current > process; you cannot register an arbitrary process: > https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.14.5/Registry.html#register/3 > > However, there are ways to work around this with Registry; see attached > Livebook markdown for an example. > > I propose new functions: > > - Registry.register/4 > - register(pid, registry, key, value) > - Registry.unregister/3 > - unregister(pid, registry, key) > - Registry.unregister_match/5 > - unregister_match(pid, registry, key, pattern, guards \\ []) > - Registry.update_value/4 > - update_value(pid, registry, key, callback) > > Another (potentially simpler) option might be to have the pid argument be > at the end and make it default to self(). > > Thoughts? 😄 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/7245ecb4-260d-472a-a887-46f87d362019n%40googlegroups.com.
