Hi, I have a core.async question I hope someone could help me with. I have items added to channel in batches and I want to drain the channel at a set point in time. So empty the channel once in a while and then back off for sometime.

I found the mute functionality in the mix function, I think that will help me. But how do I know the channel is empty and stop reading from it (until I know I want have another go again)

TIA!

@thomas: perhaps poll! ? http://clojure.github.io/core.async/#clojure.core.async/poll!

@ghaskins: Silly question… but what is the port? is that the same as a channel?

@thomas: yes, that seems to be the nomenclature for chan in the doc

for instance: http://clojure.github.io/core.async/#clojure.core.async/<!

aah ok, hadn’t noticed that. I thought they were called chan(nel) though out.

Thank you very much indeed for the hint. Much appreciated!!!

A port is a channel end (usually read or write specific)

So it is a more general abstraction - there are things in async that create ports that aren't channels