I am pondering the question on how to achieve the following functionality elegantly in Julia:
1) I am reading camera parameters from an ini file into an object of type camera 2) I want to monitor the ini file that used to create the object for any changes .. lets say every second, and to update the object's internal parameters if a change occurred. In C++ and in any other OO language that supports simple threading this is is a no-brainer , just define an internal class method for class camera that runs in a different thread and does just that ie : polling for changes every second and updating accordingly. It is also very easy to make it thread-safe with an object lock. What will be an elegant Julia equivalent? One way is to define a function poll_threaded() that accepts object of type camera and starts a thread that monitor the filesystem for changes and updates if a change occurred, The problem is that when the object is no longer referenced in the main application , the updating threaded function still holds a reference to it .. so effectively it will not get GCied Any ideas?
