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[#950] project: eclipse-plugin priority: low category: bug
submitter assigned to status date submitted
Nikolay Sean won't fix 2007-02-15 08:19:49.0
subject [contrib #335] scala.actors not recognized
code
package examples.actors

import scala.actors._
import scala.actors.Actor._

object Message {
  def main(args: Array[String]) = {
    val n = try {
      Integer.parseInt(args(0))
    }
    catch {
      case _ =>
        scala.Console.println("Usage: examples.actors.Message <n>")
        Predef.exit
    }
    val nActors = 500
    val finalSum = n * nActors
    Scheduler.impl = new SingleThreadedScheduler

    def beh(next: Actor, sum: int): unit =
      react {
        case value: int =>
          val j = value + 1; val nsum = sum + j
          if (next == null && nsum >= finalSum) {
            Console.println(nsum)
            System.exit(0)
          }
          else {
            if (next != null) next ! j
            beh(next, nsum)
          }
      }

    def actorChain(i: Int, a: Actor): Actor =
      if (i > 0) actorChain(i-1, actor(beh(a, 0))) else a

    val firstActor = actorChain(nActors, null)
    var i = n; while (i > 0) { firstActor ! 0; i = i-1 }
  }
}
what happened
import scala.actors._
------------^
shows as erroneous
what expected Expected it to find scala.actors
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Changes of this bug report
Nikolay  edited on  2007-02-15 08:21:22.0
contribution #335. I guess the actors library is not part of the plugin. What is the policy for such things (actors, dbc, etc) WRT the plugin?
Sean  edited on  2007-04-22 04:25:43.0
Actors can be added as an external dependency by managing the classpath. On the other hand, we should maybe throw actors into the scala-library.jar so it is always available. I wanted to play around with the SCALA_LIB classpath variable, but its not as easy I thought. We could also add a SCALA_ACTOR variable...or try to deal with this using a module system. Won't fix for now.