On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 15:50 tbrunz <wild.id...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I looked the repo; he's defined 3 classes: one for packets, one for nodes, > and one for links. So yes, he instantiates links. Likely each node has a > collection of links (each of which leads to another node in the network). > The application is to simulate a network by modeling it in ST, so that > means > generating packets, each with a destination node (where nodes have > addresses), and simulating how the packets flow through the network to get > from their source nodes to their destination nodes. > > I hadn't though about sending the blocks to the nodes via the packets, but > that *is* a cool concept... And entirely do-able in Pharo. However, if the > exercise is to make a simple network model that runs to simulate network > operation, I doubt that's what they're looking for, though (since it's not > what you typically do in a packet network). I think they just want you to > model the packet-handling behavior, and that's what the block is for. (I > may be wrong.) >
Thanks, Ted. That makes sense. I agree the problem is almost certainly not about sending blocks. Silly of me, really. I didn't see anything in this thread that explained the block. I could imagine that a link object knows how to deliver a packet to the node and the node object knows how to receive the packet. (Or something like that) > -Ted > > > > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > >
