Thanks to everyone for the responses. I was completely unaware of core.memoize although I think there is a very convincing case for delay; I certainly accept the thread safety problem with the existing code. Action this day on that one!
I'm inclined to go down the @@ syntactic route, simply in order to enjoy the look of horror on my co-worker's faces when I check it in. On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:45:16 AM UTC, Steven Yi wrote: > > No reason really, just ended up writing it that way for the example. > (Maybe subconsciously I didn't want to think about pointer pointers > and wanted to break up the notation. :P) > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:18 PM, Fluid Dynamics <a209...@trbvm.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 7:19:27 PM UTC-5, Steven Yi wrote: > >> > >> Hi Andy, > >> > >> Just my two cents here, but I don't think memoize makes sense here > myself > >> due to this not being referentially transparent, and I think Andrey's > >> comment on delays makes more sense to me. You could do something like > this: > >> > >> (def conf (atom (delay (read-and-expensively-parse "somefile.xml")))) > >> > >> (defn config [] > >> @(deref conf)) > > > > > > Why not just @@conf? It seems to work at my REPL, at least, to unpeel > two > > onion layers of indirection. > > > > -- > > 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 a topic in the > > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/FaPliPRgJBI/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
