On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Brandon Bloom <brandon.d.bl...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Two bits of core.async feedback:
>
> 1) The (let [c chan] (go ...) c) pattern is *extremely-common*. Might be
> nice to have something like (go-as c ...) that expands to that pattern.
>
> 2) It's somewhat annoying to always have to consider boolean false all the
> time. Since nil signifies a closed channel, if, when, if-let, and when-let
> are extremely convenient. Unfortunately, they are subtly bugged! You need
> nil? checks everywhere, cluttering up relatively nice code.
>

It'd be really nice to have a "closed" token that one could construct a
channel with so the token could be at the app level... although I guess
this wouldn't deal with the if-let/when-let issue.


>
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Brandon Bloom 
> <brandon.d.bl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Today, primarily for my own edification, I've been implementing as many
>> Microsoft Reactive Extensions operators as I can using core.async. The
>> results have been *spectacular*. core.async is an absolute pleasure to work
>> with. I'm so happy with how they have turned out, that I really want to
>> share.
>>
>> You can find my work-in-progress here:
>> https://github.com/brandonbloom/asyncx
>>
>> The primary file of interest is:
>> https://github.com/brandonbloom/asyncx/blob/master/src/asyncx/core.clj
>>
>> At the time of this message, I've implemented the bulk of the relevant
>> operators described here:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh242961(v=vs.103).aspx
>>
>> All of my implementations utilize parking operations, so this library
>> should be fully portable to ClojureScript.
>>
>> My notes describe any difference from Rx, notable omissions, and known
>> issues:
>> https://github.com/brandonbloom/asyncx/blob/master/notes
>> I'll probably work more on this tonight and will update my notes as I go.
>>
>> Rich & team: I understand that you guys will probably take a run at
>> implementing this sort of library in the not too distant future. Please let
>> me know if and how I can contribute to that effort.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brandon
>>
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