Hello, I'm still a newbie with core.async myself, but I'll try to answer anyway, learning on the way ;-)
My idea is that you could leverage alts! which can return a default value immediately if none of the operations is "ready". I think "ready" means "would not wait/park" (there's either a value to be read in an input channel, or room in a channel buffer of an output channel). So it's not really a channel that will have the feature, but rather a process. I guess it is easy to encapsulate the desired behaviour by hiding the process behind a function taking the desired output channel, and returning a channel exhibiting the encaspulated behavior: (defn put-or-drop-channel [target-channel] (let [input-channel (chan)] (go-loop (when-let [v (<! input-channel)] (alt! [target-channel v] nil :default nil)))) ? 2014-12-29 12:38 GMT+01:00 Yehonathan Sharvit <vie...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > > I would like to create a channel that will drop messages if no consumer is > currently reading from the channel. > > Something like a channel with a dropping-buffer of size 0. > The problem is that the API doesn't allow to create a dropping-buffer of > size 0. > > > With the following code snippet, I would like the reader to read nothing. > > *(def c (create-unbuffered-chan)) * > > *(put! c :ok)* > > *(go (println (<! c))); should not print anything* > > > > Your help is appreciated. > Thanks, > Yehonathan. > > -- > 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. > -- Laurent Petit -- 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.