[Pitch #6] Actors

[Douglas_Gregor]

@anandabits

@Douglas_Gregor

That proposal is going to need revision, and I'd rather dive into the "how" of establishing relationships among different actors in the context of the custom executors proposal. I think there's a bit of exploration to do here.

Makes sense. Do you expect a new draft of that proposal to be available before this proposal is reviewed so we have more context around this issue?

I don't, because that proposal is a bit further down the dependency chain. We can riff on this over in that thread. But...

@Chris_Lattner3

nonisolated still makes the proposal much larger and more complicated than it should be, and is an additive feature that can compose on top of the basic actor model.

So are isolated parameters. Given that much of the discussion in the last few iterations has been about isolated parameters, I've separated out isolated parameters and nonisolated declarations into a separate proposal on improved control over actor isolation. It's not actually a significant simplification to the proposal, in complexity or word count, because the same concepts have always existed in the model---we just delay naming them.

EDIT: added a link to the separate proposal. The actors proposal has also been updated accordingly.

Doug