tl;dr On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Alan Gutierrez <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/1/12 3:16 AM, Oliver Leics wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Alan Gutierrez<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Never confused me. The (err, result) signature means one thing. This >>> means >>> another. Not very confusing at all. Note: I'm people. >> >> >> Good for you :) BTW: You are not people, you are you. > > > I believe you're making a talisman of "consistency", where you're choosing > an arbitrary construct in the text, function signatures of functions passed > to API functions, and turning them into a fetish. > > If I can get all the chairs in the office to point in the same direction, > the office will be more organized. > > Taking an arbitrary aspect of the API and making it fixed will sew confusion > for people when the fixture does not accurately express the purpose of the > callback. > > The purpose of the callback to create a server is to register an event > handler for zero, one or more request events. The purpose of the callback to > `fs.readFile` is to respond to a single event, guaranteed to occur once and > only once. > > Adding the error as the first argument to the callback for the server's > request handler forces the server to place a block of error handing code at > the head of the request handling function, when only a subset of the total > set of server errors will occur just prior to executing the event handler. > > What errors actually get passed to this server handler? Can you answer that > question in a way that is less confusing to the venerated newbie than simply > saying, "oh, no, this is different from the callbacks your learned about in > `fs`, error handling is a separate event?" > > -- > Alan Gutierrez - @bigeasy > > > -- > 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
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