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
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