Re: About actor syntax for Groovy 3

[jim northrop]

Russel is working on GPars v2.0 so have asked him if this proposed change is do-able.

On 7 January 2017 at 18:28, Andres Almiray <aalm...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is a slippery slope IMHO.

Adding custom syntax support in core for GPars might sound like a good idea given the fact that GPars is bundled with core. OTOH what about Spock, Grails, Ratpack and others? Wouldn't they benefit from custom syntax too? probably yes. Are they bundled with core? no, and they shouldn't.

My recommendation would be to prototype an AST transformation that can support the syntax, just like Spock does it.

One more thing, I would be very sad to see Groovy become a pale shade of Scala. Custom syntax and new operators are pushing Groovy in that direction.

Cheers
Andres

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> On Jan 7, 2017, at 6:21 PM, Daniel Sun <realb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> class ActorTest  {
>    def counter = new Counter()
>    counter.start()
>
>    for (i in 0 .. 100000) {
>        counter <- i    // send message to the counter actor
>    }
> }
>
> should be modified as:
>
> class ActorTest  {
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>        def counter = new Counter()
>        counter.start()
>
>        for (i in 0 .. 100000) {
>          counter <- i    // send message to the counter actor
>        }
>    }
> }
>
>
>
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[Russel Winder]

GPars is a library, it can have no special syntax other than what
Groovy provides.

Given Groovy has no <- operator and no way of creating library defined
operators it seems impossible to have this operator. Even though is it
a very Go way of doing message passing.

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