Re-reading your reply, sounds like I might have explained what you already know. So to better answer your question:
Dynamic scoping and Java ThreadLocals gives you equal functionality, so I'd use them equally. This is because Clojure supports thread bound dynamic scope. On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 14:39:59 UTC-8, Ernesto Garcia wrote: > > Hi Alex, thanks for your thorough response. > > It seems to me that Clojure vars are just not intended to be used as > thread-locals in general. They happen to use thread-local storage in order > to implement dynamic scoping, which is the original intent. > > That is why vars are either global (interned in a namespace), or confined > to a dynamic scope (via with-local-vars). > > If one needs thread-local storage, you use a Java ThreadLocal directly. > -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
