On Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:01:59 AM UTC+2, Alexey Petrushin wrote:
>
> > error coalescing is listed as a major benefit of promises
>
> None of control-flow helpers (steps, asyncs, promises, futures, tamejs, 
> ....) really helps with callbacks. None of them can intercept non-async 
> errors.
>
> As far as I know it's impossible to reliably catch both sync and async 
> errors, even code generators like tamejs can't do that. The only solution 
> is to patch JavaScript engine - like with Node.js Domains or Fibers.
>

Streamline.js does intercept all errors (sync and async) and propagates 
them through catch/finally clauses (that have been transformed). This is 
validated by a suite of unit tests that exercises the different 
combinations. The transformation patterns are given in 
http://bjouhier.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/yield-resume-vs-asynchronous-callbacks/

The only case where this does not work is if the exception occurs inside 
the node.js low level code, before reaching a continuation that has been 
transformed by streamline; in short if there is a bug in node and node does 
not even call your callbacks.

So this is not impossible, just non-trivial.

Bruno

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