Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 6 Jan 2017 22:23:50 +0000 (16:23 -0600)]
doc: Add a note about actor-alive? being likely to be deprecated.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Add footnote about future deprecation of
actor-alive?.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 6 Jan 2017 22:19:42 +0000 (16:19 -0600)]
doc: Have telcmd tutorial example send itself a message for line handling.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Have telcmd tutorial example send itself a
message for line handling.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 6 Jan 2017 21:58:16 +0000 (15:58 -0600)]
irc: Convert handle-line to a message handler.
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm (<irc-bot>): Add 'handle-line action handler,
which points to handle-line generic.
(dispatch-raw-line): Send message to our own actor to call handle-line.
(handle-line): Convert to be an action handler.
* demos/ircbot.scm:
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Update implementers of handle-line generic
method.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 6 Jan 2017 18:21:44 +0000 (12:21 -0600)]
doc: Reordering some paragraphs in the tutorial.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Reordering some paragraphs in the tutorial.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 6 Jan 2017 18:19:00 +0000 (12:19 -0600)]
doc: Remove stray #+END_SRC.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Remove stray #+END_SRC.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 6 Jan 2017 17:29:27 +0000 (11:29 -0600)]
agenda: Remove deprecated comment.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (run-agenda): Remove comment, since we did the thing
it suggested doing in the future.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:11:54 +0000 (10:11 -0600)]
doc: Some tutorial tweaks.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Small tutorial tweaks.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 5 Jan 2017 03:38:23 +0000 (21:38 -0600)]
doc: Move the "live hacking intermission" to the bottom.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Move the "live hacking intermission" to
the bottom of the tutorial.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 5 Jan 2017 03:36:31 +0000 (21:36 -0600)]
doc: Tutorial additions.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Add "Writing our own network-enabled
actor" section. Clean up other sections, including moving the intro
to the tutorial blathering about IRC systems to a footnote.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 5 Jan 2017 02:02:13 +0000 (20:02 -0600)]
Use *init* and *cleanup* in existing actors.
* 8sync/repl.scm (<repl-manager>):
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm (<irc-bot>): Switch from an 'init action to the
implicit '*init* action.
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm (<irc-bot>, irc-bot-cleanup): Add *cleanup*
handler.
* demos/ircbot.scm:
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Drop some calls to 'init when
bootstrapping-messages since we now use '*init*.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 4 Jan 2017 22:53:55 +0000 (16:53 -0600)]
demos: Switch botherbotherbother demo over to use define-actor.
* demos/actors/botherbotherbother.scm: Switch to use define-actor.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 4 Jan 2017 20:12:15 +0000 (14:12 -0600)]
actors: Cleanup on signals.
* 8sync/actors.scm (run-hive): Handle signals, currently SIGINT and
SIGTERM, in a friendly way. Will still run cleanup on actors.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:41:30 +0000 (11:41 -0600)]
actors: Remove define-simple-actor, add define-actor.
define-simple-actor wasn't very useful, whereas define-actor is
moderately helpful.
* 8sync/actors.scm (define-simple-actor): Remove.
(define-actor): New macro.
* demos/actors/robotscanner.scm:
* demos/actors/simplest-possible.scm:
* tests/test-actors.scm: Convert to use define-simple-actor instead of
define-actor.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:41:22 +0000 (11:41 -0600)]
doc: Add a note about the calls to display.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Add paragraph.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:31:57 +0000 (11:31 -0600)]
doc: Tweak and fix the "Writing our own actors" section.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Fixed some errors and made things a bit
clearer.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:28:18 +0000 (10:28 -0600)]
actors: Rename msg-receive, msg-val to mbody-receive, mbody-val.
* 8sync/actors.scm (mbody-receive, mbody-val): Rename from msg-receive,
msg-val. Update all callers.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 4 Jan 2017 01:57:50 +0000 (19:57 -0600)]
actors: Add auto-init feature to actors.
* 8sync/actors.scm (<actor>): Add '*init* action to actions slot.
(<hive>, hive-handle-init-all): Add '*init-all* action.
(hive-handle-cleanup-all): Adjust comment.
(%hive-create-actor): Add send-init? argument, and when supplied
call <-wait on the actor's '*init* method.
(bootstrap-actor, bootstrap-actor*): Rename from hive-create-actor,
hive-create-actor*. Switch init argument to init-args and pass in #f to
%hive-create-actor's send-init? argument.
(create-actor, create-actor*): Switch init argument to init-args
and pass in #t to %hive-create-actor's send-init? argument.
(run-hive): Add '*init-all* action call to the hive on the initial
queue.
* 8sync/debug.scm (bootstrap-actor-gimmie, bootstrap-actor-gimmie*):
Rename from hive-create-actor-gimmie, hive-create-actor-gimmie*.
* demos/actors/botherbotherbother.scm:
* demos/actors/robotscanner.scm:
* demos/actors/simplest-possible.scm:
* demos/ircbot.scm:
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org:
* tests/test-actors.scm: Change calls from hive-create-actor to
bootstrap-actor.
* tests/test-actors.scm: Add actor *init*'ing tests.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 3 Jan 2017 17:48:28 +0000 (11:48 -0600)]
doc: Add addendum section on relationship between 8sync and Fibers.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Add "8sync and Fibers" section.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 3 Jan 2017 01:20:58 +0000 (19:20 -0600)]
actors: Implicit from-actor argument <-foo methods, and add rest of <-foo*.
* 8sync/actors.scm (<-, <-wait, <-reply, <-reply-wait): from-actor is
now implicitly supplied via %current-actor parameter.
(<-*, <-reply*): New procedures.
(<-wait*, <-reply-wait*): Now pull from-actor from #:actor.
* 8sync/actors.scm:
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm:
* demos/actors/botherbotherbother.scm:
* demos/actors/robotscanner.scm:
* demos/actors/simplest-possible.scm:
* demos/ircbot.scm:
* tests/test-actors.scm: Update all callers of <-foo procedures to drop
from-actor argument.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Update documentation of <-foo procedures to
drop from-actor argument.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 22:33:10 +0000 (16:33 -0600)]
agenda: Rename start-agenda to run-agenda.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (run-agenda): Renamed from start-agenda.
* 8sync/actors.scm:
* tests/test-agenda.scm: Update all callers.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:38:23 +0000 (15:38 -0600)]
actors: Rename *clean-up* back to *cleanup.
By popular intarwebs opinion.
* 8sync/actors.scm (<actor>, <hive>, hive-handle-cleanup-all)
(self-destruct, run-hive): Rename all references of clean-up to cleanup.
(hive-handle-cleanup-all, run-hive-cleanup): Rename name from clean-up
version.
* tests/test-actors.scm: Likewise.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:15:59 +0000 (15:15 -0600)]
actors: Rename actor-am-i-alive? to actor-alive?.
* 8sync/actors.scm (actor-alive?): Rename from actor-am-i-alive?.
* 8sync/actors.scm:
* 8sync/repl.scm:
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Update all references to actor-alive?.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 21:15:29 +0000 (15:15 -0600)]
actors: Automatically add cookie by default in hive-create-actor.
Also switch separator in cookie from "-" to ":".
* 8sync/actors.scm (hive-gen-actor-id): Switch separator from "-" to ":".
(hive-create-actor): Automatically add a cookie based on the class name.
(hive-create-actor*): Tweak docstring.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 18:23:52 +0000 (12:23 -0600)]
tests: Fix broken test in test-actors.
* tests/test-actors.scm: Fix broken test, forgot to update expected output.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 18:21:23 +0000 (12:21 -0600)]
tests: Oops, forgot to add <exploder> to test-actors.
* tests/test-actors.scm: Add <exploder>.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 18:17:15 +0000 (12:17 -0600)]
actors: Update self-destruct to run *clean-up* message handler.
* 8sync/actors.scm (self-destruct): Wait on *clean-up* action before
self-destructing by default.
(run-hive): Add parameter to specify whether or not to clean-up after
the hive finishes its tasks.
* tests/test-actors.scm: Add tests for disabling #:clean-up on run-tasks
and ensuring that *clean-up* runs on self-destruct.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 17:54:03 +0000 (11:54 -0600)]
actors: Rename *cleanup* action to *clean-up*.
* 8sync/actors.scm (<actor>, <hive>, hive-handle-clean-up-all, run-hive):
Rename *cleanup* to *clean-up* and *cleanup-all* to *clean-up-all*.
* tests/test-actors.scm: Likewise.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 17:40:42 +0000 (11:40 -0600)]
actors: Add cleanup facility to run-hive.
* 8sync/actors.scm (build-actions): Moved location to be before <actor>
for compiler reasons.
(<actor>): Add *cleanup* default action to all actors, which does
nothing by default.
(<hive>, hive-handle-cleanup-all): New cleanup method, which gives
all actors still in the registry a chance to clean up.
(make-hive): Have the hive register itself to itself.
(run-hive): Now run in a dynamic-wind, and call run-hive-cleanup when
we're done.
(run-hive-cleanup): New variable.
* tests/test-actors.scm: New test to make sure cleanup is run.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 17:34:13 +0000 (11:34 -0600)]
tests: Add "speaker" utility.
* tests/utils.scm (speak-it, %speaker, speak, get-spoken, with-fresh-speaker):
New variables.
* tests/test-agenda.scm (speak-it): Remove in favor of new speaker from
utils.scm. Update to use new speaker.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 00:46:08 +0000 (18:46 -0600)]
doc: Rename calls to ez-run-hive to run-hive and adjust titles.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Rename calls to ez-run-hive to run-hive and
adjust titles.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 2 Jan 2017 00:45:50 +0000 (18:45 -0600)]
actors: Rename ez-run-hive to run-hive.
* 8sync/actors.scm (run-hive): Renamed from ez-run-hive.
All callers changed.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:57:01 +0000 (08:57 -0600)]
docs: Added "Writing our own actors" section
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: New "Writing our own actors and sending
messages between them" section.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:48:36 +0000 (09:48 -0600)]
doc: Add pk debugging section.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Add pk debugging section.
Simplify some handle-line examples.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:22:41 +0000 (09:22 -0600)]
doc: Finish "About live hacking" section.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: "An intermission: about live hacking" section
finished, at least for now.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:49:05 +0000 (11:49 -0600)]
agenda: When re-invoking a continuation at the agenda, don't wrap in a catch.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (<kontinue>): Add new record type which just wraps a
delimited continuation.
(8sync, 8sleep, 8yield): Wrap continuations in kontinue.
(agenda-run-once!): If "kontinue?", just resume the continuation without
catching errors (it already has an error handler!).
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:33:19 +0000 (10:33 -0600)]
agenda: Fix prompt buildup in agenda.
Every time a delimited continuation was resumed, we were re-parameterizing.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (current-agenda-prompt): Remove.
(8sync-abort-to-prompt): Use (%current-agenda-prompt) parameter.
(%current-agenda-prompt): New prompt, deprecating %current-agenda. This
is a slight optimization; we were only using the agenda for the prompt,
so we can remove the indirection of looking up the agenda prompt tag
every time.
(%current-agenda): Removed, see above.
(start-agenda): Move parameterization of %current-agenda-prompt,
current-read-waiter, and current-write-waiter here.
(agenda-run-once!): Remove parameterization.
Also remove comment which is irrelevant now that we're no longer using
an immutable-record-type on the agenda.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:29:58 +0000 (10:29 -0600)]
agenda: Switch "yield" to "8yield" and export.
This avoids a name collision with an existing procedure. Plus yield was
never exported, apparently.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (8yield): Renamed from yield.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 27 Dec 2016 20:17:42 +0000 (14:17 -0600)]
agenda: Major cleanup.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (<agenda>, make-agenda, agenda-time): Move from being
an immutable-record-type to just a regular one. Add set-agenda-queue!
and remove time slot.
(time-from-float-or-fraction, time-segment-right-format, <time-delta>)
(make-time-delta, tdelta, time-delta+, 8usleep): Removed.
(schedule-add!, schedule-segments-split): Remove let shadowing of time.
There's no need to always convert the time format since it should now be
correct by the time it gets here.
(delayed-time): New variable.
(run-delay, 8sleep): Use delayed-time.
(update-agenda-from-select!): Use gettimeofday instead of agenda-time.
(start-agenda): Remove get-time and handle-ports keyword arguments.
Simplify loop considerably.
(agenda-run-once!): Renamed from agenda-run-once. Simplify the enqueue
part of the code since we've constrained what an acceptable time value
looks like. Use set-agenda-queue!.
* tests/test-agenda: Update for changes to agenda.scm.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 27 Dec 2016 02:13:23 +0000 (20:13 -0600)]
actors: Add new method of running REPL via REPL actor.
Also adds new procedure to see if an actor is alive, and make use of it
in the new REPL actor.
* 8sync/actors.scm (actor-am-i-alive?): New procedure.
(ez-run-hive): Remove #:repl-server keyword.
* 8sync/repl.scm (<make-coop-server-handler, spawn-and-queue-repl-server!):
Remove.
(<repl-manager>, repl-manager-cleanup, repl-manager-init): New variables.
* demos/ircbot.scm (parse-args): Add --repl command line option.
(run-bot): Add and queue <repl-manager> actor if appropriate.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 26 Dec 2016 21:26:10 +0000 (15:26 -0600)]
actors: Removing unnecessary level of indirection around actor-message-handler.
* 8sync/actors.scm (actor-message-handler): Move to be a simple #:getter
of <actor>, which is what it really was already anyhow.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sun, 25 Dec 2016 15:31:45 +0000 (09:31 -0600)]
doc: Add "A silly little IRC bot" section to new manual.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Add "A silly little IRC bot" section.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sun, 25 Dec 2016 15:21:44 +0000 (09:21 -0600)]
demos: Import format in ircbot.scm.
* demos/ircbot.scm: Import "(ice-9 format)".
Christopher Allan Webber [Sun, 25 Dec 2016 04:59:29 +0000 (22:59 -0600)]
doc: Add tutorial intro to the new manual.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: Fill in "Intro to the tutorial" section.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:55:47 +0000 (13:55 -0600)]
doc: Drafting a new manual.
* doc/8sync-new-manual.org: New file. This is a temporary location for
manual contents while ideas for the manual are being spelled out.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:09:54 +0000 (13:09 -0600)]
irc: Split irc-bot-send-line into main functionality and action handler.
This allows irc-bot-send-line to be called directly.
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm (irc-bot-send-line): Update this procedure to
not have a message as one of the arguments so it can be called directly.
(irc-bot-send-line-action): Action handler, doing what irc-bot-send-line
previously did.
(<irc-bot>): Update actions mapping to point to irc-bot-send-line-action.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 24 Dec 2016 19:06:12 +0000 (13:06 -0600)]
actors: Update actor ids to use a vector rather than a cons cell.
This is a bit easier to read when read/written, and should be
comparatively efficient.
* 8sync/actors.scm (make-address, address-actor-id, address-hive-id):
Update to use a vector rather than a cons cell.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:58:37 +0000 (11:58 -0600)]
irc: Fixing "PONG" response, calls to handle-foo commands.
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm (dispatch-raw-line): Append irc-eol to PONG response.
Fix calls to hanle-line and handle-misc-input, which recently were
renamed.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:19:08 +0000 (15:19 -0600)]
irc: Shorten generic method names.
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm: (handle-line, handle-misc-input)
(handle-user-join, handle-user-quit): Shorten names from their previous
irc-bot-* longer names. Update callers.
* demos/ircbot.scm: Update callers to above.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 23 Dec 2016 20:22:28 +0000 (14:22 -0600)]
irc: Move irc-bot code to make use of generic methods
ircbot.scm demo also now makes use of subclassing.
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm (<irc-bot>): Removed line-handler field.
(irc-bot-dispatch-line): Renamed from irc-bot-dispatch-raw-line.
All callers changed.
(irc-bot-send-line): Moved position in file.
(irc-bot-handle-line): New method.
(irc-bot-handle-misc-input, irc-bot-handle-user-join)
(irc-bot-handle-user-quit): New stub methods.
* demos/ircbot.scm (<my-irc-bot>): New variable.
(irc-bot-handle-line): Now a generic method extending same named
method in 8sync/systems/irc.scm. Previously was `handle-line'.
(run-bot): Use <my-irc-bot>.
(main): Remove debugging pk.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 23 Dec 2016 14:50:06 +0000 (08:50 -0600)]
irc: Update irc code to use actors.
Also some significant cleanup. But more can still be done!
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm: Adjust exports.
(irc-line, irc-format, irc-display, irc-send-message)
(irc-send-formatted, handle-login, <irc-line>)
(default-handle-privmsg, make-handle-line, irc-loop)
(default-line-handler, queue-and-start-irc-agenda!): Removed.
(parse-line): Return multiple values rather than the <irc-line>
record.
(irc-line-username): Update to use prefix rather than pulling
out of <irc-line>.
(condense-privmsg-line): Update docstring to call `is-action' `emote?'.
(echo-message): Renamed from echo-back-message. Change argument list
and body to match new version and add docstring.
(<irc-bot>, irc-bot-username, irc-bot-server, irc-bot-channels)
(default-irc-port, irc-bot-line-handler, irc-bot-socket)
(irc-bot-realname, irc-bot-init, irc-bot-main-loop, irc-bot-dispatch-line)
(irc-bot-send-line): New variables.
* demos/ircbot.scm (handle-line): Renamed from `handle-message'.
Adjust body for actors edition.
(display-help, parse-args, run-bot): New variables.
(main): Adjusted for new structure.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 23 Dec 2016 01:46:46 +0000 (19:46 -0600)]
actors: Add docstring to hive-create-actor*.
* 8sync/actors.scm (hive-create-actor*): Added docstring.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 21 Dec 2016 23:00:43 +0000 (17:00 -0600)]
actors: Move error propagation within <-wait; add <-wait*, <-reply-wait*.
* 8sync/actors.scm (send-message): Rename xtra-params argument to
send-options and use it in aborting to the hive prompt.
(<-wait*, <-reply-wait*): New procedures. These allow for adding
a send-options list as a first argument, including #:accept-errors.
These also wrap call wait-maybe-handle-errors.
(<-wait, <-reply-wait): Updated as thin wrappers around <-wait* and
<-reply-wait*.
(wait-maybe-handle-errors): New procedure.
(<waiting-on-reply>): New record type.
(hive-process-message): Update to accept send-options and make use
of <waiting-on-reply>. Removes error handling, which now hapens in
wait-maybe-handle-errors.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:51:33 +0000 (12:51 -0600)]
actors: Generalize the <-foo methods functionality into send-message.
* 8sync/actors.scm (send-message): New procedure.
(<-, <-wait, <-reply, <-auto-reply, <-reply-wait): Update to use
send-message.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:09:19 +0000 (17:09 -0600)]
actors: Switch coroutine waiting code over to using case.
* 8sync/actors.scm (hive-process-message): Update resume-waiting-coroutine
code over to using a case statement.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:51:56 +0000 (15:51 -0600)]
agenda: Fixing exports.
* 8sync/agenda.scm: Removed deprecated variables 8sync-delay, 8sync-run,
8sync-run-at, and 8sync-run-delay.
Added 8usleep.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:28:10 +0000 (15:28 -0600)]
actors: Document the <message> records's fields.
* 8sync/actors.scm (<message>): Add comments.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:23:45 +0000 (14:23 -0600)]
Add toplevel 8sync.scm file.
* 8sync.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am: Add it.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:11:04 +0000 (12:11 -0600)]
actors: Move actors center-stage in 8sync.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm: Renamed to 8sync/actors.scm.
* 8sync/systems/actors/debug.scm: Renamed to 8sync/debug.scm.
* Makefile.am: Update for renamed files.
* demos/actors/botherbotherbother.scm:
* demos/actors/robotscanner.scm:
* demos/actors/simplest-possible.scm:
* tests/test-actors.scm: Update import of actors module to new location.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:48:09 +0000 (14:48 -0600)]
build: Releasing v0.3.0.
* configure.ac: Bumping version number to 0.3.0.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 19 Dec 2016 20:37:14 +0000 (14:37 -0600)]
web: Deprecate current web system.
The web system needs a rewrite, so officially deprecating, but keeping
code around in a file for reference.
* 8sync/systems/web-deprecated.scm: Renamed from 8sync/systems/web.scm.
* demos/hello-web.scm: Removed.
* Makefile.am: Remove references to above.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:00:35 +0000 (10:00 -0600)]
NEWS: Updating news to current 0.3.0 state.
* NEWS: New 0.3 section.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 17 Dec 2016 15:30:32 +0000 (09:30 -0600)]
actors: Deprecate old facilities.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (simple-dispatcher, build-actions)
(make-action-dispatch): Remove.
(mhandlers): Renamed to build-actions.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 17 Dec 2016 03:47:51 +0000 (21:47 -0600)]
demos: Update demos to new conventions.
* demos/actors/botherbotherbother.scm:
* demos/actors/robotscanner.scm:
* demos/actors/simplest-possible.scm: Update demos to use new
conventions around actions slot, lack of message-ref, etc.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:20:28 +0000 (18:20 -0600)]
actors: Adding "mhandlers" and updating define-simple-actor to use it.
We also mark a whole range of abstractions as deprecated, but those will
be removed as they're phased out of use.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (mhandlers): New macro.
(define-simple-actor): Update to use mhandlers.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:00:09 +0000 (11:00 -0600)]
actors: Remove wrap-apply from actor-inheritable-message-handler call.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (actor-inheritable-message-handler): Move location.
(<actor>): Switch init-value of actor-inheritable-message-handler to
drop wrap-apply.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:57:11 +0000 (10:57 -0600)]
actors: Add "inheritable" message handler as default message-handler.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (actor-inheritable-message-handler): New
variable.
(<actor>): New actions slot, and adjust init-value of message-handler
to be actor-inheritable-message-handler.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:18:34 +0000 (10:18 -0600)]
actors: Add %current-actor parameter.
This allows actors which may call out long procedures, such as a web
worker, to still be able to have access their actor so they can send
messages to other actors.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (%current-actor): New variable.
(hive-process-message): Update to parameterize %current-actor.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:41:50 +0000 (17:41 -0600)]
agenda: Add 8usleep.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (8usleep): New variable.
(8sleep): Update to refer to argument as "secs" rather than "time".
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:40:04 +0000 (11:40 -0600)]
doc: Remove (inaccurate) version number from docs.
* doc/8sync.texi: Remove version number.
Christopher Allan Webber [Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:33:20 +0000 (11:33 -0600)]
doc: Remove the indentation after newline structure.
We still wrap on sentence breaks.
* doc/8sync.texi: Remove indentation after newlines.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:29:34 +0000 (16:29 -0600)]
NEWS: Mention the actor model subsystem added to 8sync 0.2.
* NEWS: Add 8sync 0.2 section and mention the actor model subsystem.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:43:42 +0000 (12:43 -0600)]
actors: Add msg-val and add docstring to msg-receive.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (msg-receive): Add docstring, and change
parameter name from "the-message" to just "message".
(msg-val): New procedure.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:08:23 +0000 (15:08 -0600)]
actors: Add comment about adding deferred-slot to <message>.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm: Add comment.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:48:20 +0000 (12:48 -0600)]
actors: Remove => alias.
Seems it causes problems with cond and etc. No big surprise.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (=>): Removed.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:44:53 +0000 (12:44 -0600)]
actors: Fix "unrewindable continuation" issue with error handling code.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (hive-reply-with-error, hive-process-message):
Move responding with error to outside of the catch statement.
This was resulting in unrewindable continuation issues.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:20:36 +0000 (11:20 -0600)]
tests: Call msg-receive, not msg-recieve
* tests/test-actors.scm: Fix test calls to msg-receive (was typo'ed).
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:09:52 +0000 (09:09 -0600)]
tests: Update test-actors to use msg-recieve instead of =>.
It feels like msg-recieve is an easier to read name, and looks less
like a structure used elsewhere (the way => is used in cond).
* tests/test-actors.scm: Update to switch => to msg-recieve.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 12 Dec 2016 01:20:38 +0000 (19:20 -0600)]
actors: Move message body to being an argument list for procedures.
This also removes the whole define-mhandler, mlambda, etc stuff... as
well as message-ref, since the argument list can be just about anything.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (<message>, message-deferred-reply)
(set-message-deferred-reply!, make-message, serialize-message)
(serialize-message-pretty, read-message): Removed deferred-reply slot from
<message>.
(message-ref, %nothing-provided, with-message-args, mlambda)
(define-mhandler): Removed.
(message-needs-reply?): Renamed from message-needs-reply, removed
reference to message-deferred-reply.
(message-auto-reply?, <-auto-reply, call-with-message, msg-receive, =>):
New procedures / macros.
(<-, <-wait, <-reply, <-reply-wait, simple-dispatcher, hive-reply-with-error):
Update to pass in arguments as an argument list.
(%expand-action-item): Remove optional "inline" message handler form.
(hive-process-message): Update for rename of message-needs-reply?;
use <-auto-reply where appropriate, check for an action of
either *reply* or *auto-reply*.
* tests/test-actors.scm: Adjust tests to meet new structure.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 12 Dec 2016 01:18:47 +0000 (19:18 -0600)]
agenda: Move install-suspendable-ports! call to start-agenda.
* 8sync/agenda.scm: Remove install-suspendable-ports! call from top level.
(start-agenda): Move install-suspendable-ports! here.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:14:25 +0000 (11:14 -0600)]
actors: Make the <-* message sending procedures official, not aliases.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (send-message, send-message-wait)
(reply-message, reply-message-wait): Removed.
(<-, <-wait, <-reply, <-reply-wait): Converted from being aliases
to being the official procedure names.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:13:18 +0000 (11:13 -0600)]
agenda: Fix 8sleep's time parameter.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (8sleep): Wrap time parameter in tdelta before passing
to make-run-request.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:27:36 +0000 (10:27 -0600)]
actors: Removing deprecated comment.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (<message>): Removing deprecated comment
about replied and deferred-reply slots not being used, since we use
them now.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 22:16:08 +0000 (16:16 -0600)]
actors: Remove deprecated call to former "8sync" definition
These used the old meaning of 8sync, where something would happen
asynchronously but return its value.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (hive-create-actor, hive-create-actor*): Remove
call to 8sync, just call its previous body on its own.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 16:40:20 +0000 (10:40 -0600)]
agenda: Cut out huge swath of old 8sync-* procedures/macros.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (<wrapped-exception, make-wrapped-exception)
(wrapped-exception?, wrapped-exception-key, wrapped-exception-args)
(wrapped-exception-stacks, propagate-%async-exceptions, 8sync-run)
(8sync-run-at, 8sync-run-delay, 8sync-delay): Removed.
(8sync): Update to allow for multiple statements in body.
(8sleep): Rewrite to not depend on 8sync-delay.
* tests/test-agenda.scm: Remove test for 8sync-delay.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 10 Dec 2016 03:03:47 +0000 (21:03 -0600)]
agenda: Add yield procedure.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (yield): New variable.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 9 Dec 2016 21:57:25 +0000 (15:57 -0600)]
agenda: Rename 8sync-nowait to 8sync.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (8sync-nowait, 8sync): Renamed 8sync-nowait to 8sync.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (send-message, reply-message hive-reply-with-error):
Switch calls of 8sync-nowait to 8sync.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 9 Dec 2016 20:47:47 +0000 (14:47 -0600)]
agenda: Remove 8sync macro.
Despite being the namesake of the project, this turns out to have never
really been important or made sense, except as a way to yield control as
a form of context switching. This is moving towards renaming
8sync-nowait to 8sync, a forthcoming change.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (8sync, catch-8sync): Removed.
* tests/test-agenda.scm: Removed all tests calling the 8sync macro.
Christopher Allan Webber [Fri, 9 Dec 2016 17:16:39 +0000 (11:16 -0600)]
Add comment noting that the "web" system needs a rewrite.
* 8sync/systems/web.scm: Add comment/TODO item about using deprecated code.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:43:15 +0000 (15:43 -0600)]
irc: Update IRC code to use simpler suspendable ports system.
* 8sync/systems/irc.scm (irc-socket-setup): Set port to be non-blocking.
(install-socket, make-basic-irc-handler): Remove.
(irc-loop): New procedure; uses the Guile read-line code to switch
from the former manual-buffering of make-basic-irc-handler to simply
using Guile's read-line utility.
(queue-and-start-irc-agenda!): Use irc-loop.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:37:43 +0000 (15:37 -0600)]
agenda: Remove call to deprecated agenda-except-port-map procedure.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (update-agenda-from-select!): Remove call to deprecated
agenda-except-port-map procedure.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:29:58 +0000 (15:29 -0600)]
agenda: Remove debugging statements.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (wait-for-readable, wait-for-writable): Removed debug
statments.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 8 Dec 2016 18:47:32 +0000 (12:47 -0600)]
agenda: Use suspendable ports feature from Guile 2.2.
This removes the old method of watching for when ports are updated via
select and explicitly calling a particular function, and instead can
simply suspend at the appropriate points using Guile's common I/O
procedures; the agenda handles waking things up when they're ready.
* 8sync/agenda.scm: Import `(ice-9 suspendable-ports)' and run
install-suspendable-ports!
(<agenda>, agenda-except-port-map, make-agenda): Drop except-port-map
from agenda. The "meaning" of read-port-map and write-port-map has
changed a bit too; these are still a hash-table of a port to a procedure
to be called when that port is available, but after being selected,
items are removed from the table.
(<port-request>, make-port-request, port-request, <port-remove-request>)
(port-remove-request, 8sync-port, 8sync-port-remove)
(agenda-handle-port-request!, agenda-handle-port-remove-request!): Remove.
(8sync-nowait): Move comment that was previously in 8sync-port here.
(update-agenda-from-select!): Update to use the new "meaning" of the
agenda-read-port-map and agenda-write-port-map and to drop referencing
the deprecated agenda-except-port-map. Properly removes items from
the read and write maps once they've been selected.
(<read-request>, <write-request>, agenda-handle-read-request)
(agenda-handle-write-request, wait-for-readable, wait-for-writable):
New variables.
(stop-on-nothing-to-do): Remove check on removed agenda-except-port-map.
(agenda-run-once): Parameterize the current-read-waiter and
current-write-waiter to wait-for-readable and wait-for-writable
respectively. Update handle-individual to use the new <read-request>
and <write-request> types.
Christopher Allan Webber [Thu, 8 Dec 2016 18:46:07 +0000 (12:46 -0600)]
build: Require and use guile-2.2.
This is necessary to make use of the suspendable-ports feature.
* configure.ac: Update PKG_CHECK_MODULES to use guile-2.2.
* package.scm: Update package's native-inputs to use guile-next.
Christopher Allan Webber [Mon, 5 Dec 2016 20:15:12 +0000 (14:15 -0600)]
v0.2.0
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 10 May 2016 01:37:15 +0000 (20:37 -0500)]
agenda: Add "8sleep" sugar.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (8sleep): Sugary macro for something like "sleep",
but tuned to 8sync to be nonblocking.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 7 May 2016 17:23:53 +0000 (12:23 -0500)]
actors: Fix hive-actor-local? to check the hive id, not whether actor exists.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (hive-actor-local?): Update to check the hive id.
Christopher Allan Webber [Sat, 7 May 2016 17:20:18 +0000 (12:20 -0500)]
agenda: Permit a post-run-hook in start-agenda.
* 8sync/agenda.scm (start-agenda): Add a post-run-hook keyword argument.
This permits more live hacking madness, as used in syncmud.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 3 May 2016 23:21:04 +0000 (18:21 -0500)]
agenda: Update comment, could also attach catch routines to hive.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (hive-process-message): Update comment.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 3 May 2016 23:05:31 +0000 (18:05 -0500)]
actors: Catch all errors in the actor model.
Not doing so results in a SIGABRT.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (hive-process-message): Catch all errors
and call print-error-and-continue. Leave comment for thoughts on
using maybe-catch-all.
Christopher Allan Webber [Tue, 3 May 2016 16:14:28 +0000 (11:14 -0500)]
actors: Permit docstrings in mlambda.
* 8sync/systems/actors.scm (mlambda): Switched to syntax-case so we can
identify and allow docstrings.