Code hot swapping in Erlang

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Published on 2010-06-03T19:01:18Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 19:04 UTC
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I recently saw a video about Erlang on InfoQ, In that video one of the creators presented how to replace the behavior of a message loop.

He was simply sending a message containing a lambda of the new version of the message loop code, which then was invoked instead of calling the old loop again.

Is that code hot swapping in Erlang reffers to? Or is that some other more native feature?

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