Hi, I'm just a lambda JavaScript programmer who loves building black boxes with the smallest APIs possible and a couple of hours ago, I found out Proxys existed and since then, I've been watching talks and reading articles about them. And it sure looks awesome.
But there's one thing I didn't get: Will we be able to use them to provide an API for remote objects? Because it looks it it can but it lacks the asynchronous aspect. This guys says it will: http://code.google.com/p/es-lab/wiki/Talks#Changes_to_ECMAScript,_Part_2:_Harmony_Highlights_-_proxies_and But when I look at the draf ( http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies#an_eventual_reference_proxy ), the only sentence I see "asynchronous" in is this one: "This example shows how to implement a proxy that represents an eventual reference, enforcing asynchronous property access on an object." And in the code below, the only thing that might do something asynchronous is this: get: function(receiver, name) { return promiseFor(function(){return obj[name];}); }, And it sounds more like it returns some value and *then* gets the real one. And this promiseFor function appears nowhere else on the page... And if it can not be asynchronous, it (probably) can't be used in Node.JS which, apart from the browser, will more likely become one of the most used JavaScript environment. But the thing is that if you provide both a synchronous and an asynchronous APIs, it might become a big mess... The the best solution seems to be to provide only an asynchronous API with a callback given as argument to get, set, has, hasOwn and so on. But then is gets quite strange because you do: var value = proxy.property; and it does var value = handler.get( proxy, 'property' ); but if get is asynchronous this can not work... Or then it has to be some strange C++ code and we loose all the interest of having asynchronous requests in the first place. Thank you in advance for your potential future response. ------------------------------------------------------------ To put it in a nutshell: Will Proxys support asynchronous requests? ------------------------------------------------------------ If my question is dumb and / or pointless, I'm sorry for wasting your time. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
