By the time the exception is caught, you are already outside the context of
the Thread which the repl client is interacting with. The default exception
handler has no information tying the executing thread to the repl process
(not to mention the dynamic variables clojure is using to associate outpu
Thank you very much for the explanation, Justin.
I don't see how I can use futures, though, without blocking on the main
thread (to get the exception when it occurs). I'm spawning a long-running
process that never returns a value.
On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 12:43:14 AM UTC-8 noise...@gmail.
to be clear, in my second example you see the error from the future without
using deref
good luck finding your solution
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 12:50 PM Austin Haas wrote:
> Thank you very much for the explanation, Justin.
>
> I don't see how I can use futures, though, without blocking on the ma
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I must've overlooked your example,
because I'd already written off futures.
It seems like what you are suggesting, catch and print, might be about as
good as I could hope for. If I don't want to block the main thread, then I
don't see what else I could possibly
