If you emit a callback on an event then its bidirectional and not an event.
By all means make a new thing but don't call it an eventemitter. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Brian Link <[email protected]> wrote: > > The most important thing is that event emitters is a single direction > communication. If you want bidirectional communication use a duplex stream > or functions > > This is all that is happening here. We have an array of functions that > get called either in parallel or series. Its convenient that the > EventEmitter object already has support for storing arrays of functions > associated with a string key. So.. I'm using it :) > > > On Monday, January 14, 2013 7:21:58 PM UTC-5, Brian Link wrote: >> >> Over the past few months I've been using this little utility module in my >> applications. Thought I would share it here now that it is stable and >> well-documented. >> >> https://github.com/cpsubrian/**node-eventflow<https://github.com/cpsubrian/node-eventflow> >> >> EventFlow exposes some of the great flow-control utility provided by >> caolan's async module in the form of events. Basically, you'll be able to >> 'register' asynchronous (or sync, or a mix) handlers via the `emitter.on()` >> syntax you are already familiar with. Then you can fire them with >> `emitter.series()`, `emitter.parallel()`, `emitter.waterfall()`, etc. >> >> The docs should explain it all but I'm happy to answer any questions >> here. Its got tests, travis-ci peace-of-mind, and has been in production >> on several apps for a few months. >> >> Enjoy! >> > -- > 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 > -- 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
