Thank Philippe for your advices,I came from java environment and seems I 
still remain with some 'bad' habits.

On Friday, May 23, 2014 12:04:52 PM UTC+3, Philippe Guillebert wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> This is not written as functional code. You have to understand that :
>
>     (cons f futures)
>
> creates a new "version" of futures with f in front of it and cons *returns 
> it to you*. Put another way,* futures is not modified by cons*. In your 
> dotimes construct, the consed value is lost each loop. Have a look at 
> loop/recur, map, and reduce, these are the backbone functions when 
> programming in clojure.
>
> Also, do not use (def) inside a function, this is ugly. use let to define 
> local bindings instead.
>
> --
> Philippe.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:16 AM, sorin cristea 
> <srncr...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> do you have any idea how I can define a variable, global or inside a 
>> function, used to store for example the FutureTask objects resulted from 
>> ExecutorService submit(fn) call,I want to put all futures in a collection 
>> and later call 'get' on each of them. bellow is a sample of that code: 
>>
>> (defn sample-fc
>>   []
>>   (def futures '())
>>   (dotimes [i 3]
>>     (def f (. thread-pool (submit (fn [] ("task result !!!")))))
>>     (cons f futures)
>>     )
>>    "shutdown the pool"
>>   (. thread-pool shutdown)
>>   (. thread-pool awaitTermination (. Long MAX_VALUE) (. TimeUnit SECONDS))
>>
>>   "go through all futures an call get on them"
>>   (doseq [f futures]
>>     (println (. f get))
>>     )
>> )
>>
>>  when I do 'dosync' futures collection is empty, even if (def f (. 
>> thread-pool (submit (fn [] ("task result !!!"))))) is a a non empty 
>> object of type FutureTask(java.util.concurrent package).
>>
>> Do you know how to define 'futures' variable such that to keep all 
>> returned future ?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Sorin
>>
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