I just added this to stackexchange's codereview, would you any of you async pros mind glancing at my work, and tell me if I'm doing things idiomatically, or if there's a better way? http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/143380/a-simple-async-task-in-clojure Thanks so much!

@josh.freckleton done!

(I'm not an authority regarding what's idiomatic, but at least I can suggest improvements)

@val_waeselynck those were awesome suggestions, thank you, implementing now...

🙂

Hello clojurians

I need to make "time-buffered" evaluation... so I don't overload with requests some servers...

Came up with this code

is this the right approach? Maybe there is some better solutions?

(timebuff (http/get "some url" ...))

no

arguments are evaluated

so your http/get is happening immediately before timebuff is called, then timebuf is just waiting for a while to give you the result

so, a macro then...

or pass a thunk

I wouldn't structure it that way either

I would create a loop running on a thread that reads a pair of [thunk result-channel] from an input channel, then does (!!> result-channel (thunk)) then any sleep, then back through the loop

because the in and out of the loop happens via channels, you can safely use that from inside go blocks, but timebuff has that blocking <!! in it

aha, ok

what is a "thunk" ? 🙂

zero argument function

(fn [] expr)

@hiredman thanks