Time stamping objects?

[Paul Box]

This may not be the answer you were looking for, but might have an
appeal in its own way.  If you have a list of mates, how about just
eliminating the first member of the list after a certain amount of
time?  That would have the appeal of the "forgetting" having nothing
to do with the female herself, rather more along the lines of a
limitation in the male's ability to remember.  This would not be the
best solution if you wanted to have "forgetability" as some intrinsic
property of the female or the mating, but might be better if you were
interested in basing it on the male's inabilility to remember beyond a 
certain number.

And, you might want to keep the simulation design away from Jay
Leno...

Jonathan Greenberg writes:
 > This is probably an easy question to answer, but I've been killing 
 > myself over it: I have a model simulating Gorilla movements as 
 > related to mating and infanticide, and one of the factors is each 
 > gorilla has a "memory" of those females he's mated with.  I haven't 
 > had a problem dealing with this: each gorilla has its own list which 
 > adds female objects to it whenever mating occurs.  Now, how do I make 
 > them FORGET the female after a certain time?  Can I time stamp the 
 > memory (using getCurrentTime() ), adding to the Female object?  Or is 
 > there some way to copy the female object without pointing to the one 
 > moving around in the simulation?
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > 
 > 
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