File a bug in JIRA, thanks! http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/ASYNC

David

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Tom Coupland <tcoupl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been seeing this weird looping behavior with some go loops over the
> last few days. An exception is being thrown from a function within the loop
> and rather than logging and looping back around to a waiting take, the loop
> seems to just hop back to the line before the function call. It's been
> driving me crazy, because it's, well, crazy :)
>
> I think i've managed to boil it down to the following:
>
> (def s (chan))
> (def single
>   (go-loop []
>     (try
>       (prn "Awaiting single")
>       (<! s)
>       (prn "Single")
>       (throw (new Throwable))
>       (catch Throwable t
>         (prn t)))
>     (recur)))
>
> (def d (chan))
> (def double
>   (go-loop []
>     (try
>       (prn "Awaiting double")
>       (<! d)
>       (prn "Double")
>       (throw (new Throwable))
>       (catch Exception re
>         (prn re))
>       (catch Throwable t
>         (prn t)))
>     (recur)))
>
> Now if you (>!! s :a), you'll see the throwable printed out and the loop go
> back to waiting on the s channel. However, (>!! d :a) and you'll get to
> enjoy an infinite stream of 'Double'. In actual fact you can remove the
> -loop from double and get the same result.
>
> Not sure what's going on here at all. In the macro expanded version of
> double '(prn t)' doesn't appear at all (it does in single's expansion), so
> it looks like it's not surviving the move into the state machine and instead
> is routing back to (prn "Double") or the take isn't really completing
> somehow, leaving the :a on the chan. Either way it doesn't seem right!
>
> I'd love for someone to shed some light on this behavior and/or point me at
> something that would explain it.
>
>
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