John, Is like I am missing something? This thread mentioned making periodic tasks, there was a java example to it. However, what you posted I am yet to figure out how to make a periodic tasks possible.
Regards, Emeka On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:27 PM, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Luke VanderHart < > luke.vanderh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why not just run an agent that does something, then calls sleep for N >> seconds, then calls the next thing? >> >> Granted, it will eat up a thread in your agent thread pool, but if >> you've only got one of these in the app it shouldn't be a problem. >> >> Or you could go the Java route, and start a daemon thread manually. > > > Or you could use send-off instead of send; send-off doesn't consume from a > finite thread pool and is thus suitable for long-running (or blocking, e.g. > I/O) tasks. > > Incidentally, if you ever want to simply reset the state of an agent to a > particular value, analogously to ref-set and reset!, this can work: > > (defn set-agent [a v] (send a (fn [_] v))) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
