Send

As explained in Clojure: The Essential Reference

send is a Clojure function that asynchronously dispatches an action function to an agent for execution on the fixed-size agent send pool.

How Clojure: The Essential Reference covers it

How deep it goes

Explains the state-transition contract and demonstrates basic dispatch, but defers detailed executor customization to related functions.

Examples

Uses an agent initialized to zero, inc, send, deref, and nested dereferencing to show successive state changes.

What it assumes

Assumes familiarity with Clojure functions, agents, asynchronous execution, and dereferencing.

What you can do after

Apply send to queue state-changing functions on agents, then observe completion through deref or await.

How it connects

Connects agents with deref, await, send-off, and sequential action processing.

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Related concepts

• thread pooluses · A worker pool is a managed collection of workers that execute submitted or queued tasks, typically reusing workers to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
• send-offcontrasts with · send-off is a Clojure function that asynchronously dispatches an action function to an agent for execution on the unbounded agent send-off pool.

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