RE: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-22 Thread Sean Corfield
In news that should surprise no one: our full test suite passes on Beta 8 (I meant to post that yesterday afternoon but got distracted). Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." --

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Alexander Yakushev
Absolutely not trying to propel this discussion forward, but *ackchyually *even with the given semantics ("async-require should be used in asynchronous code"), the better word would be "concurrent" or "multithreaded". But I certainly didn't intend this thread to unwind so much and take away

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Timothy Baldridge
ve thought >>>> about the name and won’t entertain changes”  >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> It’s for safely doing requires in asynchronous (multi-threaded) code. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sean Corfield

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Alex Miller
Geez, man, relax and have a drumstick. The audience for this is, I expect, small. Over time we expect to monkey with the internals of require itself, and this will basically become deprecated, but that was too much for this point in 1.10. Also, please note that the other two parts of this beta

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Andy Fingerhut
gt;> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." >>> -- Margaret Atwood >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *From:* clojure@googlegroups.com on behalf >>> of Alex Miller >>> *Sent:* Wednesday, Nove

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Timothy Baldridge
ying somebody, you're not really alive." >> -- Margaret Atwood >> >> >> -------------- >> *From:* clojure@googlegroups.com on behalf of >> Alex Miller >> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2018 9:54:28 AM >> *To:* clojure@googlegroups.com

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Chris Nuernberger
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 9:54:28 AM > *To:* clojure@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8 > > We’re good with the name. The docstring exists for further explanation. > > On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Alexander Yakushev > wrote: > > Could I

RE: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Sean Corfield
o: clojure@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8 We’re good with the name. The docstring exists for further explanation. On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Alexander Yakushev mailto:unlo...@bytopia.org>> wrote: Could I suggest bikeshedding on the name async-require? Before I've see

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Alex Miller
We’re good with the name. The docstring exists for further explanation. > On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Alexander Yakushev wrote: > > Could I suggest bikeshedding on the name async-require? Before I've seen the > patch, my initial impression was that it loads namespaces asynchronously > (that

Re: [ANN] Clojure 1.10.0-beta8

2018-11-21 Thread Alexander Yakushev
Could I suggest bikeshedding on the name async-require? Before I've seen the patch, my initial impression was that it loads namespaces asynchronously (that is, returns control immediately and loads them in the background). It might be somewhat confusing that a function async-require is