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Diffstat (limited to 'src/clojure/contrib/auto_agent.clj')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/clojure/contrib/auto_agent.clj | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/clojure/contrib/auto_agent.clj b/src/clojure/contrib/auto_agent.clj index 1d9275a7..0734cc65 100644 --- a/src/clojure/contrib/auto_agent.clj +++ b/src/clojure/contrib/auto_agent.clj @@ -26,7 +26,20 @@ -(ns clojure.contrib.auto-agent +(ns + #^{:author "Stuart Sierra", + :doc "This is superficially similar to Ken Tilton's \"Cells\" library for +Common Lisp. But Cells is single-threaded and synchronous. This +version is built on Clojure agents, so it is multi-threaded and +asynchronous. + +An auto-agent is an agent whose value is the result of an +expression. That expression can include other mutable Clojure +types -- agents, atoms, and refs -- dereferenced with \"deref\" or +\"@\". Whenever one of those derefernced things changes, the +auto-agent will be automatically updated to reflect the new value. +"} + clojure.contrib.auto-agent (:use [clojure.contrib.walk :only (macroexpand-all)] [clojure.contrib.test-is :only (deftest- is)])) |