On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Russell Leggett <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just going to go ahead and play stupid here. Why is it called chain? I > agree one more method doesn't break anyone's brain, but I think the > confusion comes when it is not clear what a method is for and when they > should use it. Can anyone just try to write a really quick API doc for chain > so that someone without knowledge of monads could read it? It should > hopefully be fairly obvious after reading the doc why the method is called > chain.
Yeah, it's pretty easy - the chain() method lets you "chain" one promise into another - you start with a promise, take a function that returns a promise, and return a promise from that. (Naming abstract operations is hard, but I think chain() is better than bind(). This is probably why Haskell spells it ">>=". ^_^) ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
