Rank can be used effectively for programming simple cellular automata, but actor models are usually more complex than that. It would certainly be possible to take this approach, but that doesn't make it a good fit for general actor models.
# Steve Don Guinn wrote: > It explicitly specifies independence between parts of the data. > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Steven H. Rogers <st...@shrogers.com> wrote: > >> Don Guinn wrote: >> >>> J has an explicit concurrency operator, it's called rank. >>> >> True, but how is that relevant to the Actor model? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
