Excellent explanation, thanks Nicolas :) Are Refs unique to Clojure or they exist in all Lisps?
On Aug 16, 10:22 am, Nicolas Oury <nicolas.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's a clever box containing a value. > You can open the box and read the current value. > But you can't modify the content of the box directly. > > You need to change the value in a box in a transaction. > The cleverness of refs comes form the fact that all read and all write > in a transaction are consistent with each other > independently of other threads reading and writing. > > For a better and full explanation, as Wilson tells > :http://clojure.org/concurrent_programming > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Wilson MacGyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's clojure's STM(Software Transaction Memory). More info > > athttp://clojure.org/concurrent_programming > > > On Aug 15, 2010, at 11:26 PM, HB <hubaghd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hey, > >> I don't understand what "references" are. > >> (ref #{}) > >> This creates a reference to an empty set but what is "reference" any > >> way? > >> Thanks for help and time. > > > -- > > 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
