In addition to what others have said, I also tend to use doall when working with agent actions that return sequences (i.e. to force any computation to happen in the agent's thread and not in the caller's)
Cheers, Mark On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:32 AM, 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. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
