On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Andreas Rossberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 February 2014 18:35, Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The evolution of DOM and ES promises, and the related fragile consensuses, >> has been an involved process. >> >> Going back to the source documents, consider what the May AP2 >> proto-consensus really is: "Abashed Monadic Promises 2," from [Mark's >> presentation][1], page 18. Using modern terminology, this consisted of >> "resolve," "then," "accept," and "flatMap" (monads+promises, for short). The >> outcome of that meeting was that the DOM would proceed with standardizing >> the subset of AP2 that it needs, namely "resolve" and "then" (promises, for >> short). > > Just to be clear, that is not my recollection at all.
For whatever the history is worth, this is also not my recollection of the consensus in May. In particular, in May my memory is that we decided on a _single_ constructor (ie, not both of "resolve" and "accept"), and that there wasn't any discussion or consensus for DOM to do something else. Sam _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
