diff --git a/src/syndicated-actor-model.md b/src/syndicated-actor-model.md
index 73ffa75..46ea474 100644
--- a/src/syndicated-actor-model.md
+++ b/src/syndicated-actor-model.md
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ representing spreadsheet cells. Each cell entity publishes public aspects of its
interested peers: namely, its current value. It also responds to messages instructing it to
update its formula. In pseudocode:
- ` 1:`**define entity** Cell(*formula*):
+ ` 1:`**define entity** Cell(*formula*):
` 2:` *subscribers* ← ∅
` 3:` **on** assertion from a peer of interest in our value,
` 4:` add *peer*, the entity reference carried in the assertion of interest, to *subscribers*
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ update its formula. In pseudocode:
`13:` **continuously**, whenever *value* or *subscribers* changes,
`14:` **assert** the contents of *value* to every peer in *subscribers*,
`15:` **retract**ing previously-asserted values
+
Much of the subscription-management behaviour of Cell is generic: lines 2–6 managing the
*subscribers* set and lines 13–14 iterating over it will be common to any entity wishing to
@@ -149,18 +150,20 @@ Hayes modem command strings) paired with *continuations* represented as entity r
responses the modem sends in reply to a command string are delivered to the continuation entity
as a SAM message.
- ` 1:`**define entity** Server():
+ ` 1:`**define entity** Server():
` 2:` **on** assertion Request(*commandString*, *replyEntity*)
` 3:` output *commandString* via modem serial port
` 4:` collect response(s) from modem serial port
- ` 5:` **send** response(s) as a message to *replyEntity*
-
- ` 6:`**define entity** Client(*serverRef*):
+ ` 5:` **send** response(s) as a message to *replyEntity*
+
+
+ ` 6:`**define entity** Client(*serverRef*):
` 7:` **define entity** *k*:
` 8:` **on** message containing responses,
` 9:` **retract** the Request assertion
`10:` (and continue with other tasks)
`11:` **assert** Request(`"AT+CMGS=..."`, *k*) to *serverRef*
+
This is almost a standard continuation-passing style encoding of remote procedure
call.[^rpc-sam-discussion] However, there is one important difference: the request is sent to
@@ -193,7 +196,7 @@ the factoring-out of dataspaces.
A special kind of syndicated actor entity, a *dataspace*, routes and replicates published data
according to actors' interests.
- ` 1:`**define entity** Dataspace():
+ ` 1:`**define entity** Dataspace():
` 2:` *allAssertions* ← ∅
` 3:` *allSubscribers* ← ∅
` 4:` **on** assertion of semi-structured datum *a*,
@@ -211,6 +214,7 @@ according to actors' interests.
`16:` if *a* matches Observe(*pattern*, *subscriberRef*),
`17:` remove (*pattern*, *subscriberRef*) from *allSubscribers*
`18:` retract all assertions previously sent to *subscriberRef*
+
Assertions sent to a dataspace are routed by pattern-matching. Subscriptions—tuples associating
a pattern with a subscriber entity—are placed in the dataspace as assertions like any other.
@@ -297,7 +301,7 @@ modem examples from above.
### Spreadsheet cell with a dataspace
- ` 1:`**define entity** Cell(*dataspaceRef*, *name*, *formula*):
+ ` 1:`**define entity** Cell(*dataspaceRef*, *name*, *formula*):
` 2:` **continuously**, whenever *value* changes,
` 3:` **assert** CellValue(*name*, *value*) to *dataspaceRef*
` 4:` **continuously**, whenever *formula* changes,
@@ -308,6 +312,7 @@ modem examples from above.
` 9:` **assert** Observe(⌜CellValue(*n*, *?nValue*)⌝, *k*) to *dataspaceRef*
`10:` **on** message conveying a new formula,
`11:` *formula* ← *newFormula*
+
The cell is able to outsource all subscription management to the *dataspaceRef* it is given.
Its behaviour function is looking much closer to an abstract prose specification of a
@@ -319,20 +324,22 @@ There are many ways to implement RPC using dataspaces,[^rpc-sam-discussion] each
characteristics. This implementation uses anonymous service instances, implicit service names,
asserted requests, and message-based responses:
- ` 1:`**define entity** Server(*dataspaceRef*):
+ ` 1:`**define entity** Server(*dataspaceRef*):
` 2:` **define entity** *serviceRef*:
` 3:` **on** assertion of *commandString* and *replyEntity*
` 4:` output *commandString* via modem serial port
` 5:` collect response(s) from modem serial port
` 6:` **send** response(s) as a message to *replyEntity*
` 7:` **assert** Observe(⌜Request(*?commandString*, *?replyEntity*)⌝, *serviceRef*) to *dataspaceRef*
-
- ` 8:`**define entity** Client(*dataspaceRef*):
+
+
+ ` 8:`**define entity** Client(*dataspaceRef*):
` 9:` **define entity** *k*:
`10:` **on** message containing responses,
`11:` **retract** the Request assertion
`12:` (and continue with other tasks)
`13:` **assert** Request(`"AT+CMGS=..."`, *k*) to *dataspaceRef*
+
If the service crashes before replying, the client's request remains outstanding, and a service
supervisor [[Armstrong 2003][], section 4.3.2] can reset the modem and start a fresh service
diff --git a/style.css b/style.css
index a27ddaf..27f7d8b 100644
--- a/style.css
+++ b/style.css
@@ -6,3 +6,8 @@ div.ditaa {
svg text {
font-family: "Source Code Pro", Consolas, "Ubuntu Mono", Menlo, "DejaVu Sans Mono", monospace, monospace !important;
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+ overflow: auto;
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