On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Stefan Schmidt < stefanschmid...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Yves, > > >> You say that "With the help of this library it is possible to build >> Erlang-Style mailboxes", but how would you solve the issue of static typing? >> > > this wasn't an issue for me because I wanted as much type checking as > possible. In many implementations, you have an implicit contract between the > sender and the receiver process. In this case, the contract is explicit and > the compiler can tell me if I'm trying to send or receive "wrong" data. > > I've found that I like Erlang's pattern matching for sorting through different kinds of data payloads, but that I prefer to use typed data channels per Limbo, Go, Plan 9's thread and messaging libraries etc. I've often wanted an Erlang with static typing to get this capability.
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