Jeff Rose <ros...@gmail.com> writes:
> The future is used because they have a timeout feature when using the
> .get method.
Should there be a corresponding timeout-based `deref' function¹
("deref-within"?) for promises? Having to close a function over your
"@p" form and spawn a job on a separate thread seems like way too much
work just to get a timeout-based wait on the promise's delivery
arriving.
Footnotes:
¹ http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/deref
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