You can increase the chances of generating discussion by boiling down both 
the relevant content of paper and your program to a minimal, self-contained 
form.

Cheers - Victor

On Friday, February 15, 2013 4:05:09 PM UTC+1, thattommyhall wrote:
>
> A few months ago I reread Simon Peyton Joneses article on STM in the 
> Beautiful Code book and decided to try and translate it into clojures 
> STM 
>
> See the paper here http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74063/beautiful.pdf 
>
> He says 'Atomic blocks as we have introduced them so far are utterly 
> inadequate to coordinate concurrent programs. They lack two key 
> facilities: blocking and choice' so I guess the implication is 
> Clojures STM is inferior, any thoughts? 
>
> I had to use a constraint on a ref and try/catch to get the same 
> effect (though I hate using exceptions for control flow it does seem 
> to work) 
>
> https://github.com/thattommyhall/santa-claus/blob/master/src/santa/core.clj 
>
> I think a better solution might be had using watchers, how would you do 
> it? 
> Any good links explaining differences in the STMs? 
>
> Cheers, 
> Tom 
>

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