I believe if you update to the newest versions of SLIME, swank- clojure, clojure, and clojure-contrib, ctrl-c ctrl-c should just work out of the box in SLIME without any modifications to your user code. I haven't used clojure-box though.
-Jason On May 12, 11:11 pm, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I often write code that I just want to run in an infinite loop. The > code generates lots of random things, and logs the interesting ones to > a file. > > In Python, I'd write such code inside a try block that catches the > Ctrl-C exception. So, when I want to use my computer for something > else, I just hit ctrl-C, and the finalizing code is executed and then > it exits. > > There was a thread here a while back, suggesting a solution involving > a break-thread utility in clojure.contrib.repl-utils. I've tried > this, but it didn't work well in my Clojure Box / Slime environment. > So I was looking for another way, and came up with this: > > (def *halt* (ref false)) > > (defn infinite-loop [] > (loop [] > (when (not @*halt*) > (do (blah) (recur))))) > > (defn on-thread [f] > (.start (Thread. f))) > (defn launch [] (dosync (ref-set *halt* false)) (infinite-loop)) > (defn halt [] > (dosync (ref-set *halt* true))) > > This way, I type (launch) from the REPL, and (halt) from the REPL to stop. > > It works, but.... > > If I'm editing my code while it's running, and recompile the file, now > *halt* is bound to a new ref, and the new halt function sets this new > ref, not the old one that the running threads are checking. I don't > honestly need to hot-compile, but the fact that hot compilation breaks > this approach suggests to me that it's not the right way to do things. > > One possibility is (I think?) to change the def of *halt* to > (declare *halt*) > (when (not *halt*) > (def *halt* (ref false))) > > but that also strikes me as a bit ugly. > > Is there a cleaner way? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
