>> will actors actually do the queued function w/in a reasonable
>> timeframe? i don't think there are any guarantees of it so if one is
>> hoping to get really nicely periodic behaviour... just curious because
>> i'd thought of using agents for periodic stuff, too.
>
> In practice, they seem to.

it seems like a common thing people try to do in Clojure e.g. random
link 
http://github.com/fffej/ClojureProjects/blob/33ef9f0d1c67821658122273321e0a403486374b/misc/uk/co/fatvat/flock.clj

so, can anybody "official" say if this use case is / will be
explicitly kept in mind for agent implementation?

thanks :)

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