No badarg when sending message to non-existent process name (Bugzilla #112)

[krant]

status CONFIRMED severity normal in component ling-vm for ---
Reported in version 0.2.3 on platform PC
Assigned to: mk

On 2014-06-04 16:55:25 +0200, Aleksey Vasilenko wrote:

Enter in LING shell:
1> some_unreg_process_name ! 1.
It will print out:
some_unreg_process_name

But http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html says that:

Expr1 ! Expr2

If Expr1 evaluates to a name, but this name is not registered, a badarg run-time error will occur.