Asynchronicity in Node can not be made optional as it is (by design) the default.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Olivier Lalonde <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe there would be an easy way to change the status quo without > impacting developers who chose to adhere to a strict async style. The > solution I propose is simply a pattern for writing I/O APIs: every I/O call > should be async unless no call back is supplied, in which case the I/O call > should be sync and use return / throw statements instead of calling a > callback. Please, have a look at streamline.js https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs It kind of reveres your proposed solution by giving every async function the same callback that turns the async function into a sync function (aka: you can write code that looks synchronous) Short example: var s = fs.stat(path, _) console.log(s.size) The underscore "_" is the callback you have to give to every async function to turn it into a function that behaves like a synchronous one. I would really like to know if that might work for you. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
