From: Zsban Ambrus <ambrus@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T22:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: model for my problem (network simulator)

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:05:29PM +0900, Gergely Kontra wrote:
> On 0504, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd like to ask for help for my problem. Maybe the Q isn't
> > > ruby-specific, but I WILL implement it in ruby, and I want to make a
> > > rubyish program. I hope I can learn from the problem.

"rubyish program" -- does this mean a program in ruby? probably since 
you post this here

> > >
> > > So: I had to write a network simulator. It consists of nodes, link
> > > between nodes. 
> > >....
> > >
> > > Shall I submit my code? Or did anybody has a model for it already?
> > 
> > What was your question exactly?  You seem to have implemented the simulator
> > already...
> 
> Just one little thing (chicken-egg problem): the links should know about
> the 2 ending nodes, and nodes must know about in/outgoing links. So how
> to easily administrate it?

That's easy in ruby, as ruby is garbage-collected, so it can clean up
circular references by itself.  Thus, you can add a list of both the in and
outgoing links to each nodes.