What I said is purely from reading the documentation .. I have never ever used it. Take it with a pinch of salt!
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Sunil S Nandihalli < sunil.nandiha...@gmail.com> wrote: > It gives a convenience macro which checks if there is a transaction running > when the following code block is called. The idea is that since the code in > a transaction could be called a multiple times, you should not do things > like sending things on to the network or writing to a file during a > transaction. So what you should do is wrap any network/ InputOutput > operation in a io! macro. If you did that .. if you call this function > inside a transaction it would throw an exception. > > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:29 AM, ka <sancha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is a good question and I'm not sure of the right answer or if >> there is one. Personally, if I were exposing an API I would use the >> io! macro for sure. Even otherwise its a good convention to follow. >> >> On Nov 30, 9:06 am, Alex Baranosky <alexander.barano...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > I've recently discovered the io! macro. Is this something to try to use >> all >> > the time.. or only in certain situations? >> > >> > Alex >> >> -- >> 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<clojure%2bunsubscr...@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 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