Why not task.js, instead? Different issue: do we already have a solution for a missing error handler causing silent failures? task.js should cover this, too (right?)
[[[Sent from a mobile device. Please forgive brevity and typos.]]] Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de Home: http://rauschma.de Blog: http://2ality.com On 07.11.2012, at 00:42, "Claus Reinke" <claus.rei...@talk21.com> wrote: >> I agree that promises should be standardized in Ecma-262. > > Agreed. That would also offer the possibility to support promises > in syntax. In ES7 (latest), I would like to see something roughly like > > { ...; > let x <- promise; > ...; > } > > (read as "let x from promise"), desugaring into > > { ...; > promise.then( (x) => { ...; }; > } > > Essentially, this is an even shallower continuation than generators > (only the remaining statements in the current statement list), but it > is already sufficient to avoid callback nesting issues in async code. It also > suffices to implement generators, but for syntax. > By relying on nothing but a '.then' method, this isn't tied to promises > in the narrow sense, but provides a reusable building block for other control > abstractions (to begin with, abstracting away the default > error handling in some APIs). > > Claus > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
