ruote - forget expression

forget

Forgets all of its children.

This expression is somehow deprecated in favour of the :forget attribute
that any expression understands.

              sequence do
                participant 'alpha'
                forget do
                  sequence do
                    participant 'bravo'
                    participant 'charly'
                  end
                end
                participant 'delta'
              end

In this example above, the flow goes from alpha to bravo and delta. The
bravo-charly segment is independent of the main process flow. Charly’s
reply will be forgotten.

Now the equivalent process definition, but using the :forget attribute :

              sequence do
                participant 'alpha'
                sequence :forget => true do
                  participant 'bravo'
                  participant 'charly'
                end
                participant 'delta'
              end

This expression can be useful for fire-and-forget ‘parallelism’
in processes.

multi forget

Forget multiple children at once.

              forget do
                alice :task => 'take out garbage'
                bob :task => 'clean living room'
              end

The forget expression will reply immediately to its parent expression, it
will thus not be cancellable (neither the children will be cancellable).

forget vs lose vs flank

forget : replies to parent expression immediately, is not cancellable
(not reachable).

lose : never replies to the parent expression, is cancellable.

flank : immediately replies to the parent expression, is cancellable.

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