May I add one more thing: the main topic this was about is adapting non-standard async APIs (like Node's error-first callback idiom) to the land of promises. Async functions and iterators are incredibly useful when you're dealing with just promises, especially consuming them, but this is about creating promise adapters, not consuming promises.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017, 18:52 Mark <m...@heyimmark.com> wrote: > Codefined, just out of curiousity, do you have anything to do with this > proposal that got announced today > <https://github.com/tc39/proposals/pull/41>? Or is it just a coincidence? > :) > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 3:07 PM Dean Tribble <trib...@e-dean.com> wrote: > > Should `callee()` be asynchronous here? To my mind, no, it shouldn't. > Every single line here is synchronous, so the function itself should surely > be synchronous. Shouldn't functions that may not have `await` in them, but > instead that are actually asynchronous and hence use the `async return` > keyword be the ones we define with `async`? > > > In the Javascript (and Midori) model, concurrent execution of multiple > activities is achieved by breaking those activities up into coarse-grained, > application-defined "turns" (or "jobs") and interleaving those. An async > boundary is where the current turn could end, and the turns for other > concurrent activities might run, changing the state before the current > activity proceeds. > > Therefore, callee must be async, because that declares that there could > be a turn boundary within it, and thus, the rest of the state of the > program could change as a result of the call. The caller of callee *must > *ensure that it's invariants are correct before allowing other code to > interleave with it. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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