Howdy, I'm looking at using Future/Promise to be thread-friendly in some code.
Background... Lift has Futures (or LAFuture... yeah... go ahead make fun of the name... pronounce it with a French accent)... with Lift futures, one can do: future.foreach(v => /* do something with the value */) If the Future has been realized (or satisfied in Lift parlance), then the function executes in the current thread. If the Future has not been realized, the function is executed on a thread-pool thread once the Future has been realized. This means that we don't have to consume threads waiting for a Future to finish its work... and we can continue a computation on the thread-pool thread once the future has finished. Is there a way to get a code block to execute when a Future (or Promise) is realized? As an adjunct to that question... in Lift, we have fast-fail Futures. You can pass in List[Future[Box[X]]] and get a Future[Box[List[X]]]... but the Box will be Empty if any of the Futures fail (return an Empty Box or a Failure Box). The advantage is that if you fork off a bunch of requests to external systems you can fail-fast with your uber request if any of the systems fail. Is there a similar facility in Clojure. Thanks for your time and your help? David -- Telegram, Simply Beautiful CMS https://telegr.am Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Blog: http://goodstuff.im -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
