Because a promise is not a control surface of the asynchronous action fulfilling it; confuses owner with consumer. https://stackoverflow.com/a/41417429/918910

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On 7/31/17 7:35 AM, T.J. Crowder wrote:
Related: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/how-about-awaiting-arrays (particularly the discussion of `await.race`), since effectively you're doing a race between a timeout and each chunk. Also relevant is the former work on cancelling promises, now withdrawn. (Can anyone point me at *why* it was withdrawn?)

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:10 AM, kai zhu <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    the timeout handler will not work as advertised, e.g. what if io /
    db issues causes a network stream to intermittently respond in
    intervals far greater than 30000ms or not at all?

    > On Jul 31, 2017, at 7:26 AM, James Browning
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
    >
    > It'll look something like this:
    >
    > ```javascript
    >
    > async function consumeReadableStream(stream) {
    >     const start = Date.now()
    >     for await (const chunk of stream) {
    >
    >        /* Do whatever you want with the chunk here e,g, await other
    > async tasks with chunks
    >            send them off to wherever, etc
    >        */
    >
    >         if (Date.now() - start > 30000) {
    >             throw new Error('30000 ms timeout')
    >        }
    >    }
    >    /* Instead of callbackOnce the returned promise from this
    function
    > itself can be used */
    > }
    >
    > ```
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