Hi Stuart,
thanks for the info. I did not really think about some of these
differences. Basically, it was just a fun exercise ... not (yet)
useful for anything serious.
On Dec 2, 10:14 pm, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > how do Clojure agents relate to Erlang actors?
>
> There are several important differences:
>
> 1. Agents are designed for in-process communication only.
Right, whereas Erlang actors are distributed. This was not so
important for me at the moment.
>
> 2. Observing the state of an Agent does not require sending it a message.
Good point, I must have forgotten that ... maybe this makes agents
actually more general than actors?
>
> 3. Agents accept arbitrary functions instead of a predefined set of
> messages.
That is true, but I was wondering whether it is possible to simulate
Erlang style messages with this. In my sketch the state of an agent is
a handler function which only accepts a limited set of messages. Seems
to be a close fake of Erlang actors (and reading the state without
sending a message as in 2. is not very useful since it only returns
the handler function ... calling this function then acts as a send).
>
> -S
Best,
Nils
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