[starlogo-users] asynchronous "ask-turtles"

[Buck, Peter M]

Hello to the list from a new subscriber.

Please forgive my impertinence in posting without waiting to listen for a
while.  At least I did check through the last 8 or 9 months of archives
(wouldn't a search capability be nice!) and didn't see this topic mentioned.

I was dismayed to discover that "ask-turtles" is apparently not
asynchronous--does not go on to the next step until the turtles have
completed whatever you were asking them.  While I can imagine that such
behavior would be useful part of the time, surely the ability to touch off
several infinite loops would also be useful.  I found that you COULD
accomplish the deed by touching off one procedure from which control was
passed to various infinite loops depending on breed, but either I'm totally
missing the boat or this seems like capability crying out to be implemented.
Which is it?

- Peter Buck
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