In the early core.async presentation, Rich argues that we should avoid
putting application logic in callback handlers, and instead build the
"machine like" parts of our code in the core.async model. To bridge from
callback world to core.async we have put! and take! which we should call as
soon as possible.
But what do we do if the library we are interfacing with relies on some
effect having happened *before* the callback returns, but our application
architecture dictates that effect should come from some other process? (go)
(put!) and (take!) all return immediately.
According to my (hopefully incorrect!) understanding, it's not possible.
It seems to me we need something like (<!!), which is not available in cljs
due to the lack of real threads.
However, could we not have an implementation of (<!!) that goes something
like this?:
(defn <!! [c]
(loop
(or (poll! c)
(if (any-process-ready?)
(do
(schedule-next-process!)
(recur))
(throw "deadlock!")))))
This is making some uninformed assumptions about the scheduler, but
presumably there must be:
- Some kind of list of ready (not blocked on channel operations) processes
- The ability to run a ready process until the next scheduling point (or
until it runs out of processes).
However I believe the scheduler is to be considered private/opaque, so a
proper "userland" implementation would not be possible.
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