Actors in Erlang DO have mutable state, you're just discouraged from using it. ;) No really, erl -man get and set. Sometimes you're forced to use this despite the best of intentions.
But I really have to ask, how composable were monads again? - dlf On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Peter Schuller <peter.schul...@infidyne.com> wrote: >> far as i know..actors share a mutable queue.. so there's good possibility >> for dead-locks > > Actors as they work in erlang don't have mutable state (not > intrinsically anyway, though of course you can implement an actor that > does poke on shared data since it's your code). The 'state' in an > erlang actor is that of parameter(s) to an infinitely tail-recursive > function. > > Deadlock in a message passing system is still possible if you limit > the mailbox size (unless some other means are used to prevent it). My > understanding is that mailbox size is not limited in erlang, and that > there is no other means to avoid deadlock, meaning that while you will > not deadlock in the message passing system you can cause memory > exhaustion. > > Disclaimer: While I've played with erlang I'm not really that into it, > please correct me someone if I've misrepresented anything. > > -- > / Peter Schuller > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- -- Dave Fayram dfay...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
