Actor idioms

Authors:
Dale Schumacher
Affiliations:
Independent, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd edition on Programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents, and decentralized control abstractions
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Actor systems are driven by asynchronous message reception events. Taking full advantage of the Actor Model requires recognizing relevant patterns of actor interaction. We describe several idioms here, in hopes of beginning to build a catalog of useful interactions. Some idioms simply implement already-familiar mechanisms, in terms of actors. Others illustrate novel strategies that can only be realized with asynchronous actor messaging. All provide new perspective on the process of computation.