Hi Ken, thank you for your response. Do you think you can give me a quick example of how to extend an Exception to be able to extract the value from the exception when it is caught.. Should I be using gen-class for this? (seems quiet messy to me)... do you have a better suggestion..
Thanks, Sunil. On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Ken Wesson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Sunil S Nandihalli > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I would like to have a long running process to return its current > solution > > after some pre-determined amount of time. It so happens that the > iteration > > is happening at a deeper nested function. I would like to have a way to > > return from this nested function when its time ... How can I do this. > > Currently I am considering using the > > throw catch mechanism to do the job. Is there a better way of doing > things > > like this .. . I basically would like to have a non-local return .. > > something like the common-lisps return-from .. I > > found return-from equivalent in clojure.. I was hoping there is a nicer > way > > to deal with this when the function calls are quiet deeply nested.. > > Probably the least messy way to deal with it is to sprinkle > (Thread/sleep 0)s through the innermost loops of the algorithm, one in > each, and the outermost loop that refines the in-progress result has a > try ... catch for InterruptedException that handles it by returning > the current approximation. Then have a separate threat that calls > interrupt on the calculational thread on a timer, or if a user clicks > a Cancel button on a progress dialog, or whatever. > > This is more or less what InterruptedException is for; and breaking > out of an algorithm in an unusual way is the kind of job for which > exceptions are well suited, as well as returning from fairly deep up > to a specific handler. > > -- > Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! > Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true > hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more > civilized age. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
