On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, John J Barton <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:14 AM, David Bruant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 14/02/2012 14:31, Arthur Barstow a écrit : > > > Another addition will be promises. > > An already working example of promises can be found at > > https://github.com/kriskowal/q > > Just to point out that promises are beyond the working example stage, > they are deployed in the major JS frameworks, eg: > > http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dojo/Deferred.html > http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/ > > The Q library is more like an exploration of implementation issues in > promises, trying to push them further. Relevant to the thread here is that the Q library uses promises both for local asynchrony and for asynchronous distributed messaging. The other promise libraries (even though they derive from (dojo -> mochikit -> Twisted Python -> E) only support local asynchrony. -- Cheers, --MarkM
