Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-15 Thread kwatford
*agent* and a few others have recently been properly documented at http://clojure.org/api Unfortunately this isn't true for all of the 'standard' globals. *in* and *out* don't have entries of their own, though they are mentioned in the functions that use them, so a search within that page will fin

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-15 Thread MattyDub
Should I interpret the silence on this topic to mean that there aren't any places I can go to find out about *agent*, etc.? In another thread on this group, I see that there is a *out*, as well; I assume therefore that there is a *in*. Perhaps those are documented somewhere - any pointers? (Per

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-08 Thread MattyDub
This talk was very informative, and I was glad for it. There were several informative things in the talk that I haven't seen documented anywhere (like the explanation of the thread pools backing (send ...) vs (send-off ...)). But is there anyplace I could read this information? Is there anyplac

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Wood
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Michael Wood wrote: >> Is there an explanation that's a little smaller than 607MB? > > The slides and the code? :) Ah, sorry. Didn't see the slides link. -- Michael Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-07 Thread Dave Newton
--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Michael Wood wrote: > Is there an explanation that's a little smaller than 607MB? The slides and the code? Dave --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Wood
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you checked out: http://clojure.blip.tv/file/812787? Clojure's > author talks about agents and the other concurrency support mechanisms > in Clojure. The latter half of the talk is a walk-through of the ant > simulation.

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-07 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Matt, Clojure dynamically binds *agent* to the currently active agent on a thread. Stuart > Hi all, >I have a newbie question about Agents. I've been looking at the > ants.clj file: > http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/ants.clj?hl=en&gda=-X7f3joAAABoLitVpBTEcNIQc_NHg39SZujXwZ5jF2pV

Re: A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-07 Thread Blaine
Have you checked out: http://clojure.blip.tv/file/812787? Clojure's author talks about agents and the other concurrency support mechanisms in Clojure. The latter half of the talk is a walk-through of the ant simulation. It's really good presentation. - Blaine On Dec 7, 12:56 am, "Matthew Wyat

A newbie question on Agents and ants

2008-12-07 Thread Matthew Wyatt
Hi all, I have a newbie question about Agents. I've been looking at the ants.clj file: http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/ants.clj?hl=en&gda=-X7f3joAAABoLitVpBTEcNIQc_NHg39SZujXwZ5jF2pV4ArMqQ0G0e9OU0NQiFWgQuhmPR7veGf97daDQaep90o7AOpSKHW0 Most of it makes sense to me, but the use of Agents is c