On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 17, 12:40 pm, Gorsal <s...@tewebs.com> wrote: >> Oh. And just as a quick other question, do global bindings affect >> threads which are started in the same ns? > > I think threads inherit the bindings in effect when they are created.
They do not, or this would print "out: nil": user=> (binding [*out* nil] (.start (Thread. #(println "out:" *out*))) (Thread/sleep 100)) out: #<OutputStreamWriter java.io.outputstreamwri...@317cfd38> nil In a new thread, vars always start with their root binding. There's an ongoing discussion about the best way to provide other options when this is not the desired behavior: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/170-bound-fn-macro --Chouser --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
