Pretty neat stuff! I'm sure you had as much fun with it as I have with agent2: https://github.com/laforge49/agent2#readme
On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 5:50:48 AM UTC-4, Atamert Ölçgen wrote: > > Hi William, > > Manifold deferreds can capture exceptions like future does. > > http://aleph.io/manifold/deferreds.html > > > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 12:44 AM, William la Forge <lafo...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Still a newbie here, about to release my first Clojure project. But that >> clojure blob will take some digging on my part. I use a gummed up >> dereference function that checks for Throwable in the meantime. >> >> My goal right now is to become a Dtomic freelancer. So much to learn! >> Which is why I'm doing projects. Only way I know to become proficient! So >> yeah, I need to get to the point where I can roll my own. Similarly, my >> first project builds on the send method, but I really need to get to the >> point where I can roll my own agent. >> >> In any case, thanks Francis. I can only promise more dumb questions in >> the future. ;-) >> >> >> On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 5:24:24 PM UTC-4, Francis Avila wrote: >>> >>> Huh, I was sure I had done this before, but I misremembered, I was using >>> my own promise that rethrew Throwable instances on deref (and it was in >>> clojurescript!) >>> >>> Clojure promises have no notion of failure, only realized/not-realized. >>> You need to deliver a sentinel type or value and check for it on deref, or >>> implement your own promise type which does it for you. (It's not that hard: >>> https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/clojure-1.7.0/src/clj/clojure/core.clj#L6803 >>> >>> ) >>> >>> On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 4:09:39 PM UTC-5, William la Forge wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 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. >> > > > > -- > Kind Regards, > Atamert Ölçgen > > ◻◼◻ > ◻◻◼ > ◼◼◼ > > www.muhuk.com > -- 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.
