I think the whole idea is event-driven and async. On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:11:50 PM UTC-8, stuart....@gmail.com wrote: > > 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 > <pa...@paulbutcher.com<javascript:> > > 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 clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >
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