I'll second that you are usually doing something unidiomatic if you're using refs of refs.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:44 PM, vis <thevisualist...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good point, I didn't think about that for some reason. > Yes I will give it a read, thanks for the link! > > > On Friday, July 19, 2013 6:19:03 PM UTC+2, Mikera wrote: >> >> If you want to do in in "pure functional style" then I would suggest a >> single atom / ref that contains the whole game state (including monsters, >> players, map, items etc.) >> >> That's the approach I've taken in the two Clojure games I've written so >> far, and it has worked pretty well. You might be interested in the blog >> posts I wrote about Alchemy, a 7 day Roguelike game in Clojure. There's a >> series of these starting with this: http://clojurefun.** >> wordpress.com/2013/03/12/**alchemy-day-1-a-room-with-a-**view/<http://clojurefun.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/alchemy-day-1-a-room-with-a-view/> >> >> On Friday, 19 July 2013 16:55:20 UTC+1, vis wrote: >>> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> I am playing around with a gameserver in clojure, here is the situation: >>> - I have a *ref of a hashmap that holds refs of players* >>> - I have a *ref of a hashmap that holds refs of monsters* >>> I used "refs of players" and "refs of monsters" because at some point I >>> might have to transfer things from a player to a monster (like items). >>> Since this would be a transaction, refs should be the right choice. >>> >>> But now I also need some kind of AI loop for each monster. So my >>> question is, what would be the "clojure way" to do this? >>> - use* *a* ref of a hashmap that holds agents of monsters *so I can >>> just use send-off for each monster? >>> - use a *ref of a hashmap that holds refs of monsters* that each have a >>> agent property that I can send things to? >>> - or simply use a java.thread for each one? >>> - or am I completely missing something? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> vis >>> >> -- > -- > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
