I have the same error, but only with emacs slime repl (any clojure version).
2009/5/31 Alen Ribic <alen.ri...@gmail.com> > > 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.) > > > > > > > > > -- Álvaro Vilanova, http://alvivi.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
