On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Jonathan Smith <jonathansmith...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Maybe I'm confused, but can't you just do a regular java thread for > this? > > (defn periodicly [fun time] > "starts a thread that calls function every time ms" > (let [thread (new Thread (fn [] (loop [] (fun) (Thread/sleep time) > (recur))))] > (.start thread) > thread)) > > (periodicly #(println "foo foo foo") 3000) > > I'm not really sure about the error handling thing, but I guess you > could wrap the function in a try-catch where it reinitialized itself. > (although I guess that could get dangerous if you start throwing a lot > of errors).
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