2011/1/8 Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com>

> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 2011/1/8 Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Stuart Halloway
> >> <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > One goal of resource scopes [1] is to help with scoping activities at
> >> > the REPL. That said, I think this is a "ramping up" problem -- I
> rarely if
> >> > ever hit it anymore.
> >> >
> >> > Stu
> >> >
> >> > [1] http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Resource+Scopes
> >>
> >> Eww.
> >>
> >> The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that it's far
> >> preferable to use a pure functional approach. Instead of fixing
> >>
> >> (defn foo [x]
> >>  (with-open [bar (baz x)]
> >>    (make-some-lazy-seq bar)))
> >>
> >> (map do-something-with (foo quux))
> >>
> >> -> IOException: stream closed
> >>
> >> with "resource scopes", or even with
> >>
> >> (defn foo [x]
> >>  (with-open [bar (baz x)]
> >>    (doall (make-some-lazy-seq bar))))
> >>
> >> (map do-something-with (foo quux))
> >>
> >> isn't the truly functional way to use HOF like this?
> >>
> >> (defn foo [x processor]
> >>  (with-open [bar (baz x)]
> >>    (processor (make-some-lazy-seq bar))))
> >>
> >> (foo quux #(map do-something-with %))
> >
> > With the implicit assumption that your processor is not lazy itself ...
>
> Yes, obviously. I figure it could be anything from (doall (take 5
> ...)) to (reduce #(assoc ...) {} ...) or whatnot, resulting in a
> number, a map, a short eager seq, or some such. After all you are
> querying the file for something, boiling it down to something, aren't
> you? (first (filter identity (map #(re-matches ...) (line-seq ...))))
> perhaps, to emit the first occurrence of some pattern in a text file?
> Whatever.
>


So we can altogether get rid of the concept of lazy seq, following your
argument :)

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