[Lift] Re: New Lift Actor code

2009-05-23 Thread Timothy Perrett
David, this is extremely interesting. Given the points you outlined this makes perfect sense to move from scala.actors - however, if come the 2.8 release EPFL fix the actors library so that it then becomes acceptable to use within lift again, would you want to move back to it? IMO, and as you

[Lift] Re: New Lift Actor code

2009-05-23 Thread David Pollak
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Martin Ellis ellis@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:19 AM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: I am happy to share the Lift Actor code with EPFL and if it makes it into the Scala distribution as SimpleActors or something similar,

[Lift] Re: New Lift Actor code

2009-05-23 Thread Jonas Bonér
First, and most important to Lift, a conceptual framework for doing concurrency.  Without the Actor model, Lift would not have such a rich model for building interactive applications. A design that keeps true to the Erlang Actor model in that it supports linking, run states, and other things