Chapter 7. Errors and Exceptions
There’s no right place for a chapter such as this one. So far, you’ve seen plenty of errors but not much about the mechanisms for handling them. That’s a bit because Erlang has two main paradigms: functional and concurrent. The functional subset is the one I’ve been explaining since the beginning of the book: referential transparency, recursion, higher-order functions, and so on. The concurrent subset is the one that makes Erlang famous: actors, thousands and thousands of concurrent processes, supervision trees, and more.
Although Erlang includes a few ways to handle errors in functional code, most of the time you’ll be told to just let it crash. The error-handling mechanisms are in the concurrent part of the language. ...
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