On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Domenic Denicola > <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Andreas Rossberg [[email protected]] > >> Mark, could you summarize the rationale for this, or provide a more > specific link to the appropriate bit of the discussion you are referring to? > > > > I'm not Mark, and he might have something more specific in mind, but > this summary was pretty helpful: > > > > https://gist.github.com/ForbesLindesay/5392612 > > These aren't very good reasons, unfortunately. :/ > > The JQP... problem can be solved by a single "flatten" operation added > to the API. This is a totally reasonable operation, same as it would > be for Arrays. > I'll do you one better and suggest the JQP... problem can go away completely the day TC39 decides on a built-in -- let's call it `Promise` for the sake of argument. A new spec, call it Promises/A++, could then be defined which states that this class is to be included in the proto chain of compatible promises. For the sake of interoperable shimming libraries should create this global if it doesn't exist (this part's a little sketchy but I can't think of a good alternative that doesn't involve abusing __proto__). Now, instead of a ducktest for a `then` method the promise check would instead be specified as `instanceof Promise`. For the sake of backward compatibility libraries can choose to add a Promise.prototype.then so that these new promises work with old promise libs too. If it comes comes to it, old promises can be made to work in the new regime with a little __proto__ hacking. The only reason thenables won is because library authors didn't have a formal namespace to hang these things. This is what ultimately made assimilation necessary, and it's a non-issue as soon as TC39 specifies a Promise base class. [snipped the rest, but FWIW I totally agree w/ Tab]
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