Re: Multiple Zones

[Ralf Stephan]

Marcus: 
> Creating a new Zone can be useful when you have an operation that
> creates a bunch of objects that you will eventually want to drop
> before the end of the simulation.  By dropping the Zone, you can drop
> the objects in the Zone without doing bookkeeping on the objects you
> create.  A Swarm acts like a Zone, so when you put agents in a Swarm, and
> then drop the Swarm all the agents are destroyed.
> 
> Other possibilities are subclasses for persistent data and optimization
> strategies.

Let me just comment on that one.  I have used a lot of libraries
in the past xx years but the design of Swarm is, I must say, congenial.  
The only other ones I know that come close are Java and Sather; I'd have
stayed with the latter, weren't it for the agent bits.  My hat is off
to you, Sirs.


ralf
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