Thanks Timothy, that makes sense. A follow on question if you don't mind.
I would like to 'take' n items off of a channel, but wait until n items are available rather than eagerly returning the way take does. Do you have any ideas on how I could achieve this? On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 22:23:10 UTC+2, tbc++ wrote: > > It's because into is pulling items as fast as it can from take. Sure the > buffer might get full but then into takes another value allowing take to > continue. > > Timothy > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:48 PM, cig <clifford...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I was expecting the following example to park, waiting for the 'out' >> channel to be cleared. Could anybody explain why 'take' does not >> park when the output buffer size is smaller than the number of entries >> being taken from the input channel? >> >> (def from (to-chan [1 2 3 4 5 6 7])) >> (<!! (into [] (take 4 from *2*))) ;; note: the output channel >> buffer size is 2 (less than 4 items being taken off of the 'from' channel) >> >> ;; => [1 2 3 4] >> >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking > zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C > programs.” > (Robert Firth) > -- 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/d/optout.
