GPars is a library, it can have no special syntax other than what Groovy provides.
Given Groovy has no <- operator and no way of creating library defined
operators it seems impossible to have this operator. Even though is it
a very Go way of doing message passing.
On Sat, 2017-01-07 at 18:34 +0100, jim northrop wrote:
> Russel is working on GPars v2.0 so have asked him if this proposed
> change
> is do-able.
>
> On 7 January 2017 at 18:28, Andres Almiray <aalmi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This is a slippery slope IMHO.
> >
> > Adding custom syntax support in core for GPars might sound like a
> > good
> > idea given the fact that GPars is bundled with core. OTOH what
> > about Spock,
> > Grails, Ratpack and others? Wouldn't they benefit from custom
> > syntax too?
> > probably yes. Are they bundled with core? no, and they shouldn't.
> >
> > My recommendation would be to prototype an AST transformation that
> > can
> > support the syntax, just like Spock does it.
> >
> > One more thing, I would be very sad to see Groovy become a pale
> > shade of
> > Scala. Custom syntax and new operators are pushing Groovy in that
> > direction.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andres
> >
> > Sent from my primitive Tricorder
> >
> > > On Jan 7, 2017, at 6:21 PM, Daniel Sun <realblue...@hotmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > class ActorTest {
> > > def counter = new Counter()
> > > counter.start()
> > >
> > > for (i in 0 .. 100000) {
> > > counter <- i // send message to the counter actor
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > should be modified as:
> > >
> > > class ActorTest {
> > > public static void main(String[] args) {
> > > def counter = new Counter()
> > > counter.start()
> > >
> > > for (i in 0 .. 100000) {
> > > counter <- i // send message to the counter actor
> > > }
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > View this message in context: http://groovy.329449.n5.
> >
> > nabble.com/About-actor-syntax-for-Groovy-3-tp5737574p5737575.html
> > > Sent from the Groovy Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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