If they were nested what would I use to update them simultaneously? Futures, then roll a loop that would wait till both are realized?
On Friday, March 21, 2014 4:00:03 PM UTC-4, Ben Mabey wrote: > > For coordination of this type you could either a) use refs and the STM > or b) put them in the same nested datastructure and put them both in an > atom. The latter approach is what I would recommend and what people > generally tend to do. If you go down this route you end up with the entire > state of your game in a single atom. The tradeoffs is that you loose the > ability to observe certain changes at a granular layer and you drive the > contention to a single point (which has been discussed recently on another > thread). On the flip side you end up with a single value that represents > your application's state that is easy to work with. > > On 3/21/14, 1:42 PM, Jacob Goodson wrote: > > Say I have two data structures.. > > enemies > bullets > > I want to update them like so... > > (some-game-loop > (update enemies) > (update bullets)) > > If I wanted to make sure that both structures were getting updated at the > same time instead of > > enemies and then bullets; would I use refs here or would I use something > else? What if there > > were many more structures that I wanted to update asynchronously like > this? Thanks clojurians! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
