On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:13 AM, falcon <shahb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 for this request. I have a question as well, aren't the namespace > bindings stored in one of clojure's concurrency objects?
Namespace mappings and aliases are each currently stored in a java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference Since Clojure's atom now exists and is a fairly simple wrapper around this class, I wonder if Rich would be interested in a patch that used an atom instead. If this atom were public, that would allow watchers for free, although I suppose it would also allow users to call 'swap!' on the atom directly which might allow more mischief than he'd want. When this feature has been discussed before, people also wanted to be notified when new namespaces were created, so that they'd be able to add watchers to those. The known namespaces are currently stored in a java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap, so that might be harder to port to a Clojure IRef, if that's even desirable. --Chouser --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
