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[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Nick Maclaren" <nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Not at all.  I didn't say that they came in pairs.  Consider:
> 
>     [str1, str2, agent1, str3, agent2, agent3, agent4, str4, ...]
> 
> See Algol 68 for an example of this.

When I looked at the above, I went "tilt" -

If you had no a priori knowledge about how many strings 
are associated with an agent - (or agents with a string),
then you could only identify an agent because it was not
a string, or if it had some other magic property...

I cannot imagine a use case for this that would not be better
done with a dict using the agents as keys - or are the strings the
keys?

If the strings are "inputs" and the agents "routines" - is the idea
to call the agents one after the other all with the same input, or 
is agent3 called with the return value of agent2 like a systolic 
array arrangement?

What would be the reason for doing it like this?

I am confused

- Hendrik