When working with channels and go blocks with nRepl, I often want to do something like this.
(def events (event-generator)) (go-loop [] (when-let [event (<! events)] (handle-event event) (recur))) Sometime later I want to stop listening, so I (close! events) This is fine, but I often find myself with a lot of boilerplate around go blocks where I'm constantly closing the channel, redefining it, and then re-evaluating the go-block just to try a different behavior. If you re-evaluate the go-block without closing the channel, you'll get duplicate actions. Additionally, if your channel drops out of scope, or you didn't set an exit condition on the go block (using while true or something similar), you can end up with indefinite operations that are impossible to kill without restarting the repl (and does this actually stop the code from continuing to execute somewhere in java)? I'm not very familiar with garbage collection, but is there some way to garbage collect blocks that have been re-evaluated? Does the treatment of re-evaluation depend on scope, ie. if you wrap it in a function, will it make a difference? I can imagine some function or macro that might close! and then re-create a channel everytime it's is called, maybe something like, (defn my-chan (atom (chan))) (defn test-chan [] (close! @my-chan) (reset! my-chan (event-generator)) (go-loop [] (when-let [event (<! events)] (handle-event event) (recur)))) But that doesn't really seem to reduce the complexity, since you'd have to define an atom for each of these types of functions. Thoughts? Best Dylan -- 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.