Hi Viktor,

I haven't given much thought to using Iteratees.  I'll be interested
to see your results.

Take care,
Dale

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:40 AM, √iktor Ҡlang <viktor.kl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Dale,
>
> really interesting post, thanks for writing it up.
>
> I've been experimenting implementing actor behaviors as Iteratees, is
> that something you've explored as well?
>
> Cheers,
> √
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Dale Schumacher
> <dale.schumac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When Steele and Sussman wanted to explore Actors, they built an
>> evaluator in LISP.  Their work eventually resulted in Scheme, which
>> moved us from dynamic to static/lexical scoping, but is _not_ an actor
>> language.  Since then there has been ongoing confusion about the
>> relationship, if any, between Actors and Lambda Calculus.
>>
>> Kernel is a modern Scheme variant based on explicit, rather than
>> implicit evaluation.  It is on this foundation, in about a page of
>> code, that I demonstrate how a simple Actor system can be implemented.
>>  It is my hope that this show that Actors are not simply functions,
>> but rather are simple powerful building-blocks for managing
>> concurrency in the presence of mutable state.
>>
>> <http://www.dalnefre.com/wp/2012/02/implementing-actors-in-kernel/>
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