Generators have some nice applications. Like iterators and such. I wrote https://github.com/Floby/node-object-iterator to return a generator and it was sometimes a pain to keep states and such.
On Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:31:20 UTC+1, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:17 PM, cpprototypes > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Source: http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2355 > > > > I think generators have the potential to greatly change how node.js code > is > > written (for example it could look like this http://taskjs.org). > However, > > it depends on many factors: > > > > 1) How easy will it be to migrate existing node.js code? It seems that > most > > of the community has decided that a simple async library > > (https://github.com/caolan/async) is good enough instead of promises. > So it > > may be difficult to migrate that to something like tasks.js or anything > else > > using generators. > > > > 2) Since node.js developers are used to chaining callbacks and using > async > > library, there may be a lot of inertia to overcome before generators can > > have much impact. > > > > 3) What kind of impact, if any, will generators have on the core node.js > > API? > > We won't be switching over right away, if that is what you mean. > We'll probably let user modules duke it out first, see what works and > what doesn't, then steal^Wuse that as a source of inspiration. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
