14:15 <Candle> https://playground.ponylang.io/?gist=2ffdbe7e187c7eef395b8b150954792c I like it that this works; enables a pattern that should greatly simplify this code.

14:16 <Candle> (only caveat is that the parameter to `stuff` must be passed as a ref.)

14:32 <jemc> yeah, using actor `ref` references is really helpful sometimes

14:32 <jemc> this is a different variant, but I wrote a little about this kind of thing in https://ponylang.gitbooks.io/pony-patterns/content/async/access.html

14:34 <jemc> this is also exploited by the "notify object" pattern, which is much the same as your example except that it usually uses a stateful class instead of a primitive, and the class is injected from the outside

14:34 <jemc> so, it's only a little bit the same as your example, I guess :)

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