> Le 3 déc. 2015 à 20:04, Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> I guess `held` would be like an arrow function, "transparent" when it comes 
> to held invokes (like context or arguments)

? Sorry, but I don't understand how that would help to answer my question. 

—Claude 

> 
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How would you detect that the following call to your `fileGetContent` 
>> function should return a Promise?
>> 
>> ```js
>> function oldSchool() {
>>     return fileGetContent("foo").then(function (c) {
>>         // ....
>>     })
>> }
>> ```
>> 
>> —Claude
>> 
>> 
>> > Le 3 déc. 2015 à 13:15, Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]> a 
>> > écrit :
>> >
>> > Hi there,
>> >   just writing down some thoughts about being able to understand if a 
>> > method/function has been  executed within a generator/async and is being 
>> > yielded/awaited.
>> >
>> > Rationale: API that would like to behave synchronously in some case, 
>> > returning Promises in other cases.
>> >
>> > Example:
>> >
>> > ```js
>> > function fileGetContent(fileName) {
>> >   // random example
>> >   if (held) {
>> >     return fetch(fileName).then((r)=>r.text());
>> >   } else {
>> >     var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
>> >     xhr.open('GET', fileName, false);
>> >     xhr.send(null);
>> >     return xhr.responseText;
>> >   }
>> > }
>> > ```
>> >
>> > Above example will virtually return always the same type and it could work 
>> > inside a generator or an  async function as long as it's being held.
>> >
>> > Does any of this make sense? Is it worth exploring this pattern?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any sort of thought.
>> >
>> > Best  Regards
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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