Events and Their Orderings
From the definition of an Actor, it can be seen that numerous events take place: local decisions, creating Actors, sending messages, receiving messages, and designating how to respond to the next message received.
However, this article focuses on just those events that are the arrival of a message sent to an Actor.
This article reports on the results published in Hewitt .
- Law of Countability: There are at most countably many events.
Read more about this topic: Actor Model Theory
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