On Friday, April 18, 2014 8:54:10 PM UTC+2, Aria Stewart wrote: > > > Exactly: Promises give you something else, without being ‘sync’-style. > They let you manipulate as-yet-unavailable values relatively transparently. > Actual order of operations can be factored out instead of made explicit; > what’s left is order of dependency, rather than order of operations. > > My other point was that you don't need promises for this; you can do it in a very light/simple way with callback-based APIs, just by currying the callback. See http://bjouhier.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/currying-the-callback-or-the-essence-of-futures/
So why bring a new API style into the node ecosystem when it can all be done with wh? Bruno -- -- 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/d/optout.
