On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:14 PM, loonster <tbur...@acm.org> wrote:
> I'm converting a newLisp application I wrote, in production for
> several years, into clojure, and got stuck immediately.
>
> (def input-list (ref
> '(OR,CA,CO,ID,WA)))
>
> (defn list-ploop
> "accepts a ref and returns a list's first and alters the rest"
> [in-list]
> (do
> (dosync
> (ref-set input-list (rest in-list))
> ((first in-list)))))
>
> Issuing (list-ploop @input-list) successfully alters the input-list,
> but it bombs on evaluating the (first ). Many thanks.
I'm not sure what you're trying to do here, but it seems likely that
(defn list-ploop
"accepts a ref and returns a list's first and alters the rest"
[in-list]
(dosync
(let [res (first @in-list)]
(alter in-list rest)
res)))
(list-ploop @input-list)
is what you're after.
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