On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Tab Atkins Jr. [[email protected]] >> For the purposes of this email, a promise "accepting" or "rejecting" means >> that its resolver's accept() or reject() method was called, or the >> equivalent internal magic. "fulfill" means "accept or reject". "resolve" >> means "adopt or accept, depending on whether the value is a promise-like or >> not" (in other words, what the resolver's resolve() method does). "adopt" >> means accepting or rejecting with the same value as the adopted promise. If >> I should be using better terms, let me know. > > Thanks for the clarifications :). I think this is a bit confusing because it > is at odds with commonly-used terminology, from DOM Promises and Promises/A+, > but at least now things are defined and used in a self-consistent way. Much > appreciated. > > For the record, since you asked for better terms, the community consensus is: > > - "Fulfill" and "reject" are the two end states (as opposed to "pending"). > - "Settle" means "fulfill or reject." > - "Resolve" means "adopt or fulfill."
Ah, I'd never heard the term "settle" before, in any of the threads across the WGs here. Got it. ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
