Sorry, I meant to ask how to fail with a promise? It seems that there is no fail method.
On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 4:52:47 PM UTC-4, Francis Avila wrote: > > Futures automatically capture exceptions raised in their bodies and > reraise them when the future is derefed. Promises also throw exceptions > when derefed. > > Unlike promises, futures are created with the code that delivers their > value, so calling fail and deliver explicitly on a future makes no sense. > > Think of futures as a thin wrapper around a promise which spawns a thread, > runs the code, and to the wrapped promise either delivers the result of the > code or calls (fail private-promise raised-exception) for you. > > On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 2:14:30 PM UTC-5, William la Forge wrote: >> >> A future fails when it throws an exception. How to do that with a future? >> >> It looks like (fail future exception) does not do the trick: >> http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Promises >> >> -- 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.
