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4 Notifications

Notifications are newline terminated strings sent from clients to the Pedro server. A valid notification is a string that represents an atom, a list or a compound Pedro term (with a following newline). The Pedro server reads characters from a client until it gets a newline. The server will then attempt to parse the characters up to (but not including) the newline as a compound Pedro term. If this succeeds then the server processes the notification term; otherwise the string is ignored.

Examples (trailing newline removed):

     Valid:
     info(fred, 42, "some string")
     
     Invalid (not compound, atom or list):
     "bad"
     X
     
     Invalid (does not parse):
     f(a;b)
     f([a,b))

The server will acknowledge the client with a 1 if the notification is valid and a 0 otherwise.