[rabbitmq-discuss] Experimenting with release candidates: RabbitMQ 2.7.9

[Jerry Kuch]

James FWIW an thing to be mindful of in Erlang code or terms is that
double quotes, e.g. "foo", get used for strings, or lists of characters, 
while single quotes are used for Erlang atoms, e.g. 'foo'.  

You could write 'foo' as just foo with no adornment... you typically use 
the single quotes if your atom name contains characters that are allowed 
in atom names, but that would otherwise trip up the Erlang parser.

For e.g. foo-bar will look like an arithmetic operation trying to 
nonsensically subtract atom bar from atom foo, while if you wrap it as
'foo-bar' you disabuse the parser of its base instincts.

These are really easy to not spot when one's either sleepy, or feeding data
to something whose expectations aren't yet familiar...

Best regards,
Jerry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon MacMullen" <simon at rabbitmq.com>
To: "James Carr" <james.r.carr at gmail.com>
Cc: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 3:46:53 AM
Subject: Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] Experimenting with release candidates: RabbitMQ 2.7.9

On 15/03/12 19:44, James Carr wrote:
> Here's my configuration file for the downstream server:
>                      {host, 'dc2tcserver1'},

This is, I'm afraid, the problem.

In the configuration file, single and double quotes have different 
meanings - double quotes delimit strings, while single quotes optionally 
delimit atoms. You need a string there.

Yes, this is confusing. Not sure what the solution is.

Cheers, Simon

-- 
Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware
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