Re: What does this mean ?

sounds right.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Clement Dourval <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ok I'm begining to understand :
> the "ping ! Pong" is calling the '!' method and putting a Pong in a
> mailbox.
> And the fact that the other side is continuesly calling the receive method
> is kind of forcing the scan of the mailbox as much as possible.
> Then when the mailbox has a message in it, it feeds the message as
> argument for the partial method
> am i right ?
>
> Le mercredi 17 février 2016 16:22:41 UTC+1, Oliver Ruebenacker a écrit :
>
>>
>>      Hello,
>>
>>   receive {...} is a call of the "receive" method and short for
>> receive({...})
>>
>>      Best, Oliver
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Clement Dourval <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> But what does the fact that the "receive" word is not followed by the
>>> '=' sign is meaning ?
>>> receive is suposed to be a function here right ?
>>> is that a kind of averride without having to write the whole signature.
>>>
>>> From where i'm standing, it seems to me that receive is a function with
>>> partial cases depending on the main argument to be Ping typed or other.
>>>
>>> But there is no = sign so what does this mean ?
>>>
>>> Le mercredi 17 février 2016 15:57:49 UTC+1, Oliver Ruebenacker a écrit :
>>>
>>>>
>>>>      Hello,
>>>>
>>>>   The case keyword creates a partial function, e.g.:
>>>>
>>>> scala> val pf: Int => String = { case 42 => "Hello!" }
>>>> pf: Int => String = <function1>
>>>>
>>>> scala> pf(42)
>>>> res1: String = Hello!
>>>>
>>>>      Best, Oliver
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Clement Dourval <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, I'm currently Learning Scala and more precisely, concurrent
>>>>> programming with scala.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found this code :
>>>>>
>>>>> class Pong extends Actor {
>>>>>   def act() {
>>>>>     var pongCount = 0
>>>>>     while (true) {
>>>>>       receive {
>>>>>         case Ping =>
>>>>>           if (pongCount % 1000 == 0)
>>>>>             Console.println("Pong: ping "+pongCount)
>>>>>           sender ! Pong
>>>>>           pongCount = pongCount + 1
>>>>>         case Stop =>
>>>>>           Console.println("Pong: stop")
>>>>>           exit()
>>>>>       }
>>>>>     }
>>>>>   }
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> This is from a tutorial, so i'm expecting it to work, the only problem
>>>>> is I do not understand how.
>>>>>
>>>>> The main problem is, how does this code use the case keyword since
>>>>> there is no match !
>>>>> (adress of the tutorial : http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/242)
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, i understood what was the tutorial was supposed to do (with
>>>>> ping pong), I just don't understand what is written, I'd like to be able to
>>>>> write it myself.
>>>>> But it seems i'm missing some syntax subtleties
>>>>> And even if these are deprecated, i found the same synthax with the
>>>>> akka Library ! So I'm asking myself how to read this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone can help ? Thanks in advance !
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> <http://www.broadinstitute.org/>
>>>>
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