How SALSA Supports the Actor Model

SALSA programmers write behaviors which include encapsulated state and message handlers for actor instances:

• New actors get created in SALSA by instantiating particular behaviors (with the new ketword). Creating a actor returns its reference.
• The message operator (<-) is used to send messages to actors; messages contain a name that refers to the message handler for the message and optionally a list of arguments.
• Actors, once created, process incoming messages, one at a time.