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> Subject: RE: (ROSE) "System" as Actor
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> > Using "Time" instead of "System Clock" as an actor is an interesting
> > idea -- sort of an Ingmar Bergman thing. The "grim reaper" has already
> > been used for death, but "father time" is very similar -- do you think
> > it would be suitable as an icon?
> >
> Time as an actor comes under both (1) and (2). Both timers and the actual
> time start to become important in the design of real-time systems. Yet, I
> have found stating that a use case activates/starts every ten minutes or
> daily at midnight is enough. Or you could mention that an alternative flow
> takes place if some actor (or some included use case) does not finish its
> task in 30 microseconds.
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> As soon as you have time as an actor, you have to start thinking about the
> messages we send to Time and the messages that we receive from it. Are the
> contents of these messages important? Or are we interested in just
> receiving
> timely reminders?
> [Les]
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> Just one small point, which is that the only reason I could see a system
> sending messages to 'Time' would be if you were trying to build a time
> machine.
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> Could it really be that simple :-)
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Wish it were that simple.
The first message I would send would be to last week with the results of all
the races at the week-end.
> Les.
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