Re: Is this the defects of Javaswarm? the swarm kernel neglect new added agents!

[Paul E Johnson]

In Objective-C, I have no trouble with createActionForEach usages when 
the agent list changes. Have  you tried any diagnostics to make sure 
your list of agents does actually change?  I bet that is where the 
problem is.  If you remove an agent from a list, and drop that agent, 
then if swarm tries to do something to that agent, it should find a nil 
and the whole sim should abort.

Now, I'm remembering a problem from Swarm-2.1 java and maybe it would 
account for your trouble. I discovered this in January, 2001, and I 
think the word "yell" is in my swarm-support email trial. IT has since 
been fixed, but here was the deal. If you had a createActionForEach and 
it was supposed to go through a list, it would quit as soon as it found 
a nil and it did not issue a warning message.  I found several lists 
partially processed.  But if you are using a current Swarm, that does 
not happen.

Hu, Jianjun wrote:
> Thanks Paul.
>
> I think one solution maybe swarm kernel exposes its iterator to the user,
> then we can use this iterator to update the agent list.
> and then the swarm kernel can track the changes of agents.
>
> Jianjun Hu

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