As I watched David Nolen's compelling core.async web client webinar
(http://go.cognitect.com/core_async_webinar_recording) I started to wonder
if CSP was not another metaphor for Cells (the spreadsheet being another,
and in FRP we have a time series or stream or something).
So I went ahead and redid the ten examples as closely as possible* using
Cells.
https://github.com/kennytilton/async-webinar
The README may soon be expanded, but if I do it will just be a reformatting
of the heavily annotated:
https://github.com/kennytilton/async-webinar/blob/master/src/webinar/core.cljs
Along the way I concluded Cells is not CSP, unless by communicating we mean
"broadcasting whether or not anyone is listening and to whoever is
listening". But my annotations turned out to be decent documentation of
Cells, including a new "gotcha" I encountered recently for the first time
in twenty years of Cells (suggesting the artificial code examples are unuse
cases, which we already knew). That brings me to the long-awaited asterisK.
* In examples 4&5 David motivates then fixes a case where a coder is misled
by the simplicity of a "go" form and tries to put to a channel and then
take that value in the next statement, ending up blocked forever. That
cannot happen with Cells, so I coded up the Cells "gotcha":
(if (or cell-a cell-b) ....)
Cell depedencies are decided after each invocation of a cell formula and
include only those other cells actually read, so once cell-a is true there
will be no dependency on cell-b, so only cell-a is "heard".
Final note: I have seen "callback hell" a couple of places now. I guess
Cells is hiding that from me. I do recall using qooxdoo's "message" hack to
great effect in the brief time I did clients without Cells.
-kt
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