You're right - thanks for that! I've updated the blog article to remove it.

On 19 February 2015 at 17:37, Ben Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.o...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm unclear on one thing: what's the purpose of core.async/pipe? In your
> blog article, you write:
>
> (-> source (pipe (chan)) payload-decoder payload-json-decoder)
>
> (pipe source destination) just copies elements from source to destination.
> How is that any different than just using source here directly?:
>
> (-> source payload-decoder payload-json-decoder)
>
> What have I missed?
>
> // Ben
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Malcolm Sparks <malc...@juxt.pro> wrote:
>
>> I have recently written a blog article which explains how to use
>> transducers with core.async.
>>
>> You can find it here: http://malcolmsparks.com/posts/transducers.html
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:48:05 UTC, bsmith.occs wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm probably just especially dense today, but perhaps someone can give
>>> me a poke in the right direction.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to wrap my head around transducers.
>>>
>>> (1) For debugging purposes I'd like to be able to consume the values on
>>> a channel and put them in a collection to be printed.
>>>
>>> I'm doing this at the REPL:
>>>
>>>     (async/<!! (async/into [] channel))
>>>
>>> This seems needlessly clunky. Is this really the best way to accomplish
>>> this?
>>>
>>> (2) async/map> is deprecated, what's the alternative, exactly?
>>>
>>> (let [ch (async/to-chan [1 2 3])]
>>>   (async/map> inc ch))
>>>
>>> AFAICT this would produce a channel, which when consumed would yield the
>>> values 2 3 4, correct?
>>>
>>> Now I suppose if I didn't already have the channel ch, I could create
>>> one with an associated transformation function, and then stuff the values 1
>>> 2 3 into it somehow, right?
>>>
>>> (let [ch (async/chan nil (map inc))]
>>>   (async/onto-chan ch [1 2 3])
>>>   ch)
>>> ;; returns a channel yielding items 2, 3, 4
>>>
>>> But, I'm not clear at all how I can apply the operation (inc) to the all
>>> values yielded by a channel I already have in my hand.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated. I feel like I'm missing some critical bit
>>> of insight and that async and transducers might just fall into place for me
>>> if I could only find out what that bit is.
>>>
>>> // Ben
>>>
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