On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:16PM, Jake Verbaten <[email protected]> wrote: > The only confusion is knowing whether your using generators for async flow > control or whether your using them to generate iterators you iterate over. > Once you learn to only use the first type in synchronous fashion and only use > the second type in an asynchronous fashion the confusion goes away.
This is *exactly* what I'm worried about. I'm trying to think about this not in the context of "all the code I write" but "all the code i use, and what they use, and what they use". If yield becomes a successful pattern a library user won't be aware of all the dependent generators it has, just like very few people are aware of their dependencies dependencies dependencies. Yet somehow all of the actors along this chain have to be sure they didn't use generators one way when I want to use them another way. This is very concerning. Patterns should enforce or at the very least visibly display the compatibility they offer so that actors can coordinate without active collaboration, this sounds like it depends on a bunch of people all agreeing about how their API should be used without any visible indicator stating such. One of two things will happen: * Most iterators will be used for async which means that very few people will write them in a way that i'm worry about OR * Most iterators won't be use for async which means mixing up the two cases will end in bugs *only* visible at scale. -Mikeal -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
