Hey, I myself don't know much about the foundations of the module itself, I only know it should be really the same as occam's channels, but I don't know much about them. I just found the package and thought it would seems to be useful. And as I tried to use it I found the incompatibilities and fixed them. So I just know how this implementation works, but not very much about the background.
I could do some documentation, it's just that I never documented something in this info(?) format. I'll try it and send some patches, you can then look if it's okay ^^ - Daniel On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Nala Ginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, I think it's something like Actors but little different. >> And I think it would be nice if there's a document for it. > > It's a foundational part of actors, more than actors themselves. > Actors need some sort of "mailbox" to communicate with the outside > world[0]. Channels provide a type of mailbox. I assume by the name, > the semantics of the channels provided in occam-channel, closely > resemble those in the Occam programming language. I believe the > semantics of Occam channels are based on C.A.R. Hoare's CSP[1]. > > [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_processes > >> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Thanks a lot for submitting them! Micro-commits are exactly what we want. >>> >>> These patches raise an interesting issue. I do not use occam-channel, >>> and in fact I have no idea what it does since it has no documentation >>> and no tests. Normally I only reply to emails if I think I know >>> enough to give an intelligent response, but in this case no one else >>> is replying either. This might be wrong, but it's entirely possible >>> that no one except you on this list has any way to check that these >>> are correct. (Or if they do, the people who know are not replying.) >>> >>> So I propose this: if no one replies to this email in two days, I will >>> merge the patches. >>> >>> And I hate to ask you for more after you've already contributed, but >>> if you are able, could you write some documentation or tests for this >>> module? It could badly use both of those things. >>> >>> Thanks a lot, >>> Noah >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Daniel Krueger <keen...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've done some work on (ice-9 occam-channel) and fixed the module >>>> exports, the alt macro and extended it a little bit. Here are the >>>> patches, but they are all just micro-commits, I hope that is okay. >>>> >>>> - Daniel >>> >> > > > > -- > http://www.apgwoz.com
