Using a Place or a Place-Channel as a sync event returns the value of a place-channel-get and not the Place itself.<div><br></div><div>Most events return the actual `thing' which one sync'd on. This is not true with places and channels, one gets the message itself.<br>
<div><br></div><div>The conundrum is identification of which Place / Place-Channel actually fired. Places themselves have no real mechanism supporting GUID labeling or even simple naming/labeling. There is no (place-name my-place) or ability to assign an identifier upon creation. There is documented support for Place and Place-Channel equality. So one can work around all this at the app code level, i.e. implement their own labeling system for Places.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However assuming a roll your own labeling system there is still the anonymity of a place / place-channel when used as a sync event issue.</div><div><br></div><div>(let ((msg (sync pl-1 pl-2 pl-3))))</div>
<div> ;; no idea from which place msg came from, unless explicitly recorded in the msg itself.</div><div> ;; e.g. (Msg-sender msg) -> my home brewed Place-GUID</div><div><br></div><div>Compare and contrast with ports used as an event. A port used as a sync event results in the port itself upon which one can do whatever this knowledge. For example, I might opt *not* to read the port as this time, even unilaterally close it without reading.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Consider the following parallel, asynchronous request/response idiom.</div><div><br></div><div>Given N request msgs and P places, issue one request message per ready place. (Ready in the sense it is not processing a request.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I want something like</div><div><br></div><div>(let loop ((msgs ...))</div><div> ...</div><div> (let ((ready-place (sync p1 p2 p3))) </div><div> (process-response (place-channel-get ready-place))</div>
<div> (process-request ready-place (car msgs))</div><div> (loop (cdr msgs))</div><div><br></div><div>How would one approach something like this given `sync' not returning the ready place but the received msg from some anonymous place which was ready.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Ray</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>