@Nick: Thanks for the link, I'll read up and may come back with more thoughts 
and questions.

Is function nesting that much of a problem if you design your architecture 
properly? Surely large nests of functions and anonymous functions is just 
sloppy coding isn't it?

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On Friday, 28 October 2011 at 10:51, Nick Morgan wrote:

> There's a large section in Test-Driven JavaScript Development 
> (http://tddjs.com/) about converting a Node app using callbacks to one using 
> promises. I think a big part of it is just reducing function nesting.
> 
> On 27 October 2011 22:10, bytespider <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> >  I've been thibking about promises in javascript, and whilst I think I
> >  understand the basics i fail to see how they are useful over the usual
> >  callback mechanisim.
> > 
> >  I wrote a post http://cl.ly/BMAE to summerise my thoughts and I'd
> >  really like to start a discussion here to talk about the pros and cons
> >  of such methodoligy.
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