Clojure

Scopes

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  • Type: Enhancement Enhancement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
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  • Fix Version/s: Approved Backlog
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Add the scope system for dealing with resource lifetime management

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Assembla Importer added a comment -

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/2

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Assembla Importer added a comment - Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/2
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Assembla Importer added a comment -

richhickey said: Updating tickets (#8, #42, #113, #2, #20, #94, #96, #104, #119, #124, #127, #149, #162)

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Assembla Importer added a comment - richhickey said: Updating tickets (#8, #42, #113, #2, #20, #94, #96, #104, #119, #124, #127, #149, #162)
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Stuart Halloway added a comment -

Patch demonstrates idea, not ready for prime time.

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Tassilo Horn added a comment - - edited

I think the decision of having to specify either a Closeable resource or a close function for an existing non-Closeable resource in with-open is quite awkward, because they have completely different meaning.

  (let [foo (open-my-custom-resource "foo.bar")]
    (with-open [r (reader "foo.txt")
                foo #(.terminate foo)]
      (do-stuff r foo)))

I think a CloseableResource protocol that can be extended to custom types as implemented in the patch to CLJ-308 is somewhat easier to use. Extend it once, and then you can use open-my-custom-resource in with-open just like reader/writer and friends...

That said, Scopes can still be useful, but I'd vote for handling the "how should that resource be closed" question by a protocol. Then the with-open helper can simply add

(swap! *scope* conj (fn [] (clojure.core.protocols/close ~(bindings 0))))

and cleanup-scope only needs to apply each fn without having to distinguish Closeables from fns.

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Tassilo Horn added a comment - - edited I think the decision of having to specify either a Closeable resource or a close function for an existing non-Closeable resource in with-open is quite awkward, because they have completely different meaning. 
  (let [foo (open-my-custom-resource "foo.bar")]
    (with-open [r (reader "foo.txt")
                foo #(.terminate foo)]
      (do-stuff r foo)))
I think a CloseableResource protocol that can be extended to custom types as implemented in the patch to CLJ-308 is somewhat easier to use. Extend it once, and then you can use open-my-custom-resource in with-open just like reader/writer and friends... That said, Scopes can still be useful, but I'd vote for handling the "how should that resource be closed" question by a protocol. Then the with-open helper can simply add 
(swap! *scope* conj (fn [] (clojure.core.protocols/close ~(bindings 0))))
and cleanup-scope only needs to apply each fn without having to distinguish Closeables from fns.

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