Thanks for finding that Moritz :) I am not using the value from the current agent in the new agent though, so this dispatch delay is a little annoying.
I suppose I can use a future instead of an agent, though it doesn't have all the nice properties that agents do (once action a time). Maybe I'll write a function that pulls from a BlockingQueue and run it on a Thread. Anyway, thanks again. Dan On Jun 12, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Moritz Ulrich wrote: > Sorry for the second mail, but here is the passage from clojure.org > which mentions the behavior you've seen: > > "5. If during the function execution any other dispatches are made > (directly or indirectly), they will be held until after the state of > the Agent has been changed." > > > Maybe it's done to prevent problems when the function the > currently-active agent sent to another agent depends on the value of > the original agent. > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Moritz Ulrich > <ulrich.mor...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I'm not sure why it's doing this, but I read about this in the api >> documentation - It's intended >> >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Dan Larkin <d...@danlarkin.org> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I've cooked up this example code to demonstrate a point: >>> >>> (send-off >>> (agent nil) >>> (fn [_] >>> (send-off >>> (agent nil) >>> (fn [_] >>> (println "Hey!"))) >>> (Thread/sleep 4000))) ; "Hey!" isn't printed for 4 seconds (when the >>> outer agent finishes). >>> >>> Which is that actions sent to an agent from another agent won't be started >>> until the first agent returns from its current action. >>> >>> Does anyone have insight as to the reasoning here? Is it a bug? If it's >>> intended behavior is there something I can do to circumvent it? >>> >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >>> your first post. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> >> >> >> -- >> Moritz Ulrich >> Programmer, Student, Almost normal Guy >> >> http://www.google.com/profiles/ulrich.moritz >> > > > > -- > Moritz Ulrich > Programmer, Student, Almost normal Guy > > http://www.google.com/profiles/ulrich.moritz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
