Re: Krishnamurthi's Automata in Clojure (OutOfMemoryError)

2009-11-28 Thread Charles Gordon
Mark, That did the trick, thanks! I'll definitely be testing my loops for this sort of thing in the future. It's a little worrisome that it's this easy to write a major memory leak in Clojure, but I guess this is just one of the consequences of writing a functional language on top of the JVM. Mayb

Re: Krishnamurthi's Automata in Clojure (OutOfMemoryError)

2009-11-27 Thread Mark Triggs
Hi Charles, I notice I can stop your version from running out of memory with a very small change. Changing from: ;; the [f & args] form of trampoline (trampoline init start-stream) to: ;; the [f] form of trampoline (trampoline #(init start-stream)) seems to work as expected. I would

Krishnamurthi's Automata in Clojure (OutOfMemoryError)

2009-11-27 Thread Charles Gordon
I've been working on a problem that requires me to write a small state machine for processing XML documents. Out of curiousity (I'm new to functional programming) I hit Google to see how automata are written in other functional languages. I found Shriram Krishnamurthi's paper: http://lambda-the-ul