Pretty much any lazy-seq thats reading data from somewhere that might give up on you if you take to long. For example: Your using line-seq to read from a socket, but the sequence wont be read through until the user does something.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Mark Volkmann <[email protected]>wrote: > > Can someone describe a situation where it is preferable to use doall > instead of dorun? I see in the documentation that it "retains the head > and returns it, thus causing the entire seq to reside in memory at one > time", but I'm not sure why I'd want that. > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > > > -- -Nate --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
