> You are asking to censor replies.  This is obviously not acceptable.

Relax. No one is stopping anything... just encouraging best practice for 
communication to the whole audience.

In a technical forum I think it's best to disclose affiliation to a project. A 
good habit when suggesting packages is to use an objective source like npm 
stats like Mikeal has done. Or at least a compare/contrast on why I might use 
your package.



> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> I feel really bad for people that ask incredibly simple questions on this 
> list.
> 
> The solution nearly everyone in this community uses is the async library:
> 
> https://npmjs.org/package/async
> https://github.com/caolan/async
> 
> Its currently depended on by 1901 other packages. It's the defacto-standard 
> for flow control in node.js. The only people that don't use it are people 
> that prefer to do everything by hand and people that wrote their own pet 
> library, anyone asking this question is unlikely to fall in to one of those 
> categories.
> 
> This list fills up with people advocating the library they wrote that almost 
> nobody uses, which confuses new users in order to further their own agenda. 
> If this is to be a place for new users to ask simple questions we need to 
> find a way to discourage this behavior.
> 
> -Mikeal
> 
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:02AM, greelgorke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> where's the fibers guy? :D
>> 
>> Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 22:31:57 UTC+2 schrieb azer:
>> I wrote a guide for defining async values previously; 
>> https://github.com/azer/declarative-js 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Bruno Jouhier <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> > With streamline.js (https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs), you just need 
>> > one 
>> > line of code: 
>> > 
>> > var result = (Object1.retrieveNum1(_) + Object2.retrieveNum2(_)) / 
>> > Object3.retrieveNum3(_); 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Monday, April 22, 2013 9:54:50 PM UTC+2, Slobodan Blazeski wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> Hi All 
>> >> 
>> >> I'm looking for suggestions of how to retrieve values asynchronously: 
>> >> 
>> >> In the synchronous world I have 
>> >> 
>> >> var num1 =  Object1.retrieveNum1(); 
>> >> var num2 = Object2.retrieveNum2(); 
>> >> var num3 = Object3.retrieveNum3(); 
>> >> 
>> >> var result = (num1 + num2) /  num3; 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> but since functions  Object1.retrieveNum1,Object2.retrieveNum2 & 
>> >> Object3.retrieveNum3 
>> >> retrieve data from the database or represent long calculation I need to 
>> >> pass callbacks, 
>> >> that leads me to below 
>> >> 
>> >>  Object1.retrieveNum1Async(function(num1){ 
>> >>       Object2.retrieveNum2Async(function(num2){ 
>> >>             Object3.retrieveNum3Async(function(num3){ 
>> >>                  var result = (num1 + num2) /  num3; 
>> >>             }); 
>> >>       }); 
>> >> }); 
>> >> 
>> >> is this the idiomatic way of doing this or there is something better 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> thanks 
>> >> Bobi 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
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