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
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,
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