Distributed Actors, the global statement, and Infix operators

Fri 29 Oct 2021

Introducing Swift Distributed Actors

We’re thrilled to announce a new open-source package for the Swift on Server ecosystem, Swift Distributed Actors, a complete server-oriented cluster library for the upcoming distributed actor language feature!

This library provides a complete solution for using distributed actors in server use-cases. By open-sourcing this project early, alongside the ongoing work on the language feature, we hope to gather more useful feedback on the shape of the language feature and associated transport implementations.

Source: Introducing Swift Distributed Actors, an article by Konrad Malawski.

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What the global statement really means in Python

The goal of this explanation is to make you understand when and why the global statement is needed. To accomplish this, we will introduce two key concepts: code blocks and bindings. Before diving in, take a moment to read the rest of this section.

Source: What the global statement really means in Python, an article by Luca Chiodini.

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Infix operators

Python has the wonderful "in" operator and it would be nice to have additional infix operator like this. This recipe shows how (almost) arbitrary infix operators can be defined.

Source: Infix operators an article by Ferdinand Jamitzky.

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