Hi,
how do Clojure agents relate to Erlang actors?
To gain some insights, I tried to implement Erlang style message
passing between agents. The first version is just a very incomplete
sketch (no mailbox, case instead of pattern matching ...), but already
shows that it is quite easily doable:
https://github.com/bertschi/clojure-stuff/blob/master/src/stuff/actors.clj
The idea is that the agent holds a dispatch function which is then
called by ! (send) with the message to be send. Somehow it resembles
the way closures can be used to implement an object system. Thus,
agents seem to be the functional analog of agents:
Functional programming Object-oriented
programming
sequential closure
object
concurrent agent
actors
Another great design from Rich Hickey! Clojure is fun and gets better
every day ...
Thanks,
Nils
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