Re: "explicit progression-of-time constructs"? (wikipedia)

2012-11-18 Thread Jim - FooBar();
The constructs it means are probably reference-types. Jim On 18/11/12 13:42, Hank wrote: According to Wikipedia, Clojure provides "explicit progression-of-time constructs": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure Anyone any clue which constructs are meant by that? The term doesn't even resolve

Re: "explicit progression-of-time constructs"? (wikipedia)

2012-11-18 Thread Stuart Sierra
I expect the Wikipedia article is referring to Clojure's mutable reference types -- Ref, Atom, Agent, Var -- which help to manage state that changes over time. See also http://clojure.org/state and http://clojure.org/concurrent_programming -S -- You received this message because you are subs

"explicit progression-of-time constructs"? (wikipedia)

2012-11-18 Thread Hank
According to Wikipedia, Clojure provides "explicit progression-of-time constructs": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure Anyone any clue which constructs are meant by that? The term doesn't even resolve on Google outside the Clojure context. -- You received this message because you are subscr