It's definitely one of the less intuitive aspects of dealing with core.cache 
but it bites you once (or twice!) and you internalize it and kinda move on :)

Sean

On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:57 PM, dan.stone16...@gmail.com wrote:

> In case anyone was wondering I worked out what was going on and it makes 
> perfect sense. I was being stupid :)
> 
> If you ask for a value via 'lookup' expired values will not be returned at 
> this point as 'has?' is called internally. 
> 
> I made a quick and dirty library to reflect the behaviour I want for my 
> particular use case: https://github.com/danstone/clj-refresh-cache
> 
> On Friday, February 28, 2014 9:47:14 PM UTC, dan.sto...@gmail.com wrote:
> Taking the code below, if I repeatedly read from a cache I will occasionally 
> get nil back from the cache. This seems to happen on my machine for ttl's 
> under 5 ms.
> Although I'm sure I would never use such a short TTL in the wild, I would 
> like to know why I am seeing this... Has anybody else noticed this issue? 
> 
> (ns cache-test.core
>   (:require [clojure.core.cache :as cache]))
> 
> (def data (atom "foo"))
> 
> (def ttl
>   (atom (cache/ttl-cache-factory {} :ttl 1)))
> 
> (defn get-data
>   []
>   (let [c @ttl
>         nc (if (cache/has? c {})
>             (cache/hit c {})
>             (cache/miss c {} @data))]
>     (reset! ttl nc)
>     (cache/lookup nc {})))
> 
> (def results (atom '()))
> 
> ;; there will *sometimes* be
> ;; nil elements in the seq, seems dependent on cpu speed, which would make 
> sense due to side effect of taking system/currentTimeMillis internally.
> (set (map (fn [_] (get-data)) (range 10000)))


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