I really like Mark's while-let.

I've always felt loop ... recur slightly cubersome, but never got around to
writing a custom macro to just get around it.
while-let much elegant. wow.


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Kelker Ryan <theinter...@yandex.com> wrote:

> Maybe something like this?
>
> (go-loop [c (chan)]
>   (let [x (<! c)]
>     (when-not (= :break x)
>       (doing some things x)
>       (recur c))))
>
> 14.01.2014, 14:28, "Ben Mabey" <b...@benmabey.com>:
> > On Mon Jan 13 18:11:10 2014, t x wrote:
> >
> >>  Consider the following code block:
> >>
> >>  (defn make-stupid []
> >>    (go (loop []
> >>          (recur))))
> >>
> >>  (def x (make-stupid))
> >>
> >>  ;; ... is there a way to kill this infinite go-loop ?
> >
> > No, you can not kill the loop with the go channel that is bound to x.
> > You need to return a stop, a.k.a. poison, channel that the go block
> > checks before recurring. Something like:
> >
> > (let [stop (chan)]
> >   (go
> >    (loop []
> >      (when (alt! stop false :default :keep-going)
> >        ...
> >        (recur))))
> >   stop)
> >
> > -Ben
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