I thought I had the latest from trunk, but I was on rev 1371. Did an update to latest now, rev 1382. Ran the example again and it was fine now.
-Al On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Timothy Pratley <timothyprat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
