Hi Paul, Two different reasons: The channel-to-sequence conversion seems like a questionable idea, making seqs that block. The doseq over a channel is easily enough implemented, and was not considered important enough to be on the core API.
Stu On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Paul Butcher <p...@paulbutcher.com> wrote: > I've been playing with core.async, and have come across a couple of things > that it seemed would probably be common use cases, but can't find anything > in the library that addresses them. > > I'd be grateful for pointers if any of these do exist and I'm just missing > them, or suggestions for reasons why I don't really want them and should be > tackling the problem in a different way: > > > - A way to convert a channel to a lazy sequence (i.e. build the > sequence by repeatedly reading from a channel until it's closed). It seems > odd that core.async provides a means to turn a lazy sequence into a channel > (to-chan) but not the inverse? > - An equivalent of doseq for a channel, which repeatedly reads from > the channel and calls its body with the result of doing so, terminating > when the channel is closed. > > > Of course, both of these are easy enough to write, but I'm wondering > whether the fact that they aren't provided as standard is telling me > something? > > -- > paul.butcher->msgCount++ > > Silverstone, Brands Hatch, Donington Park... > Who says I have a one track mind? > > http://www.paulbutcher.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbutcher > Skype: paulrabutcher > > > > > -- > -- > 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.
