On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Ben Wolfson <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Who said swap *was* CAS, rather than was implemented *in terms of* CAS? >> In any event, your claim that "no comparison is done unless it's done in >> the supplied function" is just plain wrong. Comparison *is* done, outside >> that function, to make sure the atom wasn't changed by another thread while >> the function was executing. >> > > "swap! is for "CAS"" > Who claimed that, again? I said "swap! is for when the new value depends, in some way, on the previous value", which is not the same thing, and then mentioned twice that it's implemented in terms of CAS. -- -- 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.
