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In the following example, the greet function inside Greeter module is run in a separate process: defmodule Greeter do def greet do IO.puts "Hello programmer!" end end iex> spawn(Greeter, :greet, []) Hello #PID<0.122.0> Here #PID<0.122.0> is the ...

defmodule Processes do def receiver do receive do {:ok, val} -> IO.puts "Received Value: #{val}" _ -> IO.puts "Received something else" end end end iex(1)> pid = spawn(Processes, ...

Recursion can be used to receive multiple messages defmodule Processes do def receiver do receive do {:ok, val} -> IO.puts "Received Value: #{val}" _ -> IO.puts "Received something else" end...