Actor model & D

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 20:37:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grostad wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 18:30:33 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 13:31:20 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>> On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 03:11:00 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
>>>> Can anyone please explain me what it means for the D 
>>>> language to follow the Actor model, as the relevant 
>>>> Wikipedia page says it does? [1]
>>>>
>>>> [1] 
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Later_Actor_programming_languages
>>>
>>> The page is largely unverified, i.e. nobody cares that it is 
>>> full of errors…
>>>
>>> D does not follow the actor model in any way shape or form…
>>
>> Wat? std.concurrency is message passing where an actor is 
>> either a Fiber or Thread.
>
> That's a library

So what? Should we say that c doesn’t support threads because 
they are implemented in the library.

> and it does not have much to do with actors, i.e. it does not 
> ensure that every actor is an independent entity.

What’s not independent about thread? How it doesn’t ensure that?
To me std.concurrency is pretty much Erlang-style message 
passing, except for supervision trees.