@jorge
exactly. that means that you callback both succeed and failed.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Lothar Pfeiler
<lpfei...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ... just clicked the send button too early.
>
> I use streams if the expected data is big and I want the memory
> consumption to be low. Meaning, "Please interrupt me, and give me
> small chunks, because I couldn't handle the big response".
>
> Lothar
>
> On Apr 28, 10:15 am, Lothar Pfeiler <lpfei...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I understand the philosophy of using callbacks as "Please call me
>> back, when the job is done". Meaning, call me back after calculating
>> all prime numbers. (avoid roundtrips)
>>
>> I understand the event emitter philosophy as "Please interrupt me all
>> the time you have news for me". Meaning, interrupt me for every single
>> prime number. (lots of roundtrips, because I want to show the most
>> current state all the time)
>>
>> So, a PrimeNumberGenerator could offer both versions for every
>> purpose. And every single app might have a different understanding of
>> the job size (or chunk size) and what are the news. So, the question
>> for the app (which uses the PNG) would be, whether it wants to act on
>> every event or just act on a final result.
>>
>> Lothar
>>
>> On Apr 28, 6:20 am, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > How can it be sugar? It isn't compiled into anything else. Sugar is part
>> > of a syntax in a language.
>>
>> > You can call it whatever you want but it is a anonymous function being used
>> > as a callback and passed to a node function that is called many times.
>>
>> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:57 PM, crypticswarm
>> > <crypticsw...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote:
>>
>> > >> > I would say that in node calling a callback more than once is not
>> > >> > only
>> > >> discouraged, but forbidden, as if it were part of an implied, non
>> > >> written
>> > >> contract.
>>
>> > >> Then how do you explain ...
>>
>> > >> http.createServer(function (req, res) {
>>
>> > > http.createServer(function (req, res) {})
>>
>> > > is sugar for:
>>
>> > > http.createServer().on('request', function (req, res) {})
>>
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