Hi Alen, I just updated to revision 1382 and it worked fine: Clojure 1.1.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT user=> (def foo 10) #'user/foo user=> (.start (Thread. (fn [] (println foo)))) nil 10
It also worked on whatever I was using before that. Can you confirm you are experiencing this behaviour in 1382? On May 31, 6:59 pm, Alen Ribic <alen.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently reading the Programming Clojure book and have come > across an unexpected result for an example in section titled "Managing > Per-thread state with Vars". > > Code snippet is as follows (with expected result): > > user> (def foo 10) > #'user/foo > > user=> (.start (Thread. (fn [] (println foo)))) > nil > | 10 > > I tried the above using the clojure trunk version and my output is > that println line didn't print anything: > > user> (.start (Thread. (fn [] (println foo)))) > nil > > However, if I try the version of clojure that accompanies the book > examples then the "println foo" in the new thread prints the expected > value of 10. > > user=> (.start (Thread. (fn [] (println foo)))) > nil > | 10 > > Does this make any sense? If so, why the difference? > > Regards, > -Alen > > PS. I'm new to clojure and I am absolutely loving it so far. > (Especially Clojure's very neat Concurrency API.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
