Another relevant library that makes use of the same generator trick, but integrated with promises, is Kris Kowal's Q API < https://github.com/kriskowal/q> via Q.async:
https://github.com/kriskowal/q/blob/master/examples/async-generators/README.md Event-driven programming without inversion of control, yet without screwing up your callers' invariants, is cool. Cheers, Tom 2012/1/17 Jussi Kalliokoski <[email protected]> > Okay, now that I've been re-reading how generators work and about task.js, > it has made me realize my error. Yes, you're right, what I've made is > actually deep continuations, and that's not really what I had in mind. > > Thanks everyone, I'll try to think of a better way to do this (or to find > out if it already exists :] ). > > Cheers, > Jussi > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Dean Landolt <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yeah, I was aware of the coroutines in generators, that's why I said it >>> would be sort of sugar. :) >>> >> >> >> But it's not sugar, it's a different feature. It's the difference between >> shallow and deep continuations. We already have shallow continuations (by >> way of generators). Deep continuations are potentially hazardous. I for one >> would love some sugar for the shallow continuations use-case of generators >> but libraries will do just fine. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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