> On Oct 24, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've been following async to sync discussions for years but I have one 
> fundamental question.  Is it possible to wrap an async function in a library 
> such that it can be called from code that is written expecting a sync 
> function?  In other words could I make a library containing a readFileSync 
> function that uses fs.readFile?
> 
> Using something like generators inside the library is legal as long as the 
> caller isn't aware of this.  Requiring the caller code to do a transpile is 
> not legal.
> 
> I should mention that this is for a node environment emulation that places 
> calls over the network using proxies.  The readFileSync code obviously can't 
> go in a busy-wait loop waiting for the result from the net.


There is not. Generators are close, but require the caller to also be function 
*, all the way down.

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