Clojure

IAtom interface

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  • Type: Enhancement Enhancement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: Approved Backlog
  • Component/s: None
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Description

Atom and the other reference types do not have interfaces and are marked final.

Use cases for interfaces for the reference types include database wrappers. CouchDB behaves exactly like compare-and-set! and is shared, synchronous, independent state, so it makes sense to use the Atom interface to update a CouchDB document.

I talked to Rich about this, and he said "patch welcome for IAtom", complete conversation: http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2010-12-29.html#10:04c

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    0001-atom-interface.patch
    28/May/11 3:39 AM
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    Pepijn de Vos
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    iatom.patch
    27/May/11 8:57 AM
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    Pepijn de Vos

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Stuart Halloway added a comment -

Please add a patch formatted by "git format-patch" so that attribution is included.

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Stuart Halloway added a comment - Please add a patch formatted by "git format-patch" so that attribution is included.
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Pepijn de Vos added a comment -

I added the formatted patch a few days ago. Does 'no news is good news' apply here?

And, silly question, will it make it into 1.3? I can't figure out how to tell Jira to show me that.

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Pepijn de Vos added a comment - I added the formatted patch a few days ago. Does 'no news is good news' apply here? And, silly question, will it make it into 1.3? I can't figure out how to tell Jira to show me that.
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Kevin Downey added a comment -

I fail to see the need for an IAtom, if you want something atom like for couchdb the interfaces are already there. Maybe I ICompareAndSwap. Atoms and couchdb are different so making them appear the same is a bad idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing

http://clojure.org/state one of the distinctions between agents and actors raised in the section titled "Message Passing and Actors" is local vs. distributed and the same distinction can be made between couchdb (regardless of compare and swap) and atoms

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Kevin Downey added a comment - I fail to see the need for an IAtom, if you want something atom like for couchdb the interfaces are already there. Maybe I ICompareAndSwap. Atoms and couchdb are different so making them appear the same is a bad idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing http://clojure.org/state one of the distinctions between agents and actors raised in the section titled "Message Passing and Actors" is local vs. distributed and the same distinction can be made between couchdb (regardless of compare and swap) and atoms
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Aaron Bedra added a comment -

This ticket has already been moved into approved backlog. It will be revisited again after the 1.3 release where we will take a closer look at things. For now, this will remain as is.

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Aaron Bedra added a comment - This ticket has already been moved into approved backlog. It will be revisited again after the 1.3 release where we will take a closer look at things. For now, this will remain as is.

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