Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 8/9/13 9:27 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: I think we should definitely report to the error console. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903419 -Boris ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.or

Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
This definitely makes sense. In the JS implementation, assuming main thread only, we should be able to rig together a finalizer/warning using XPCOM. Cheers, David On 8/9/13 3:27 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Well, the obvious other thing would be window.onerror. But that might > be tough, since m

Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Well, the obvious other thing would be window.onerror. But that might be > tough, since making GC effects be page-observable is not great. Yeah, I thought that would be out for precisely that reason. > I think we should definitely report t

Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 8/9/13 9:13 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Oh, that is a _very_ interesting idea. I wonder whether we can get that specced, or at least allowed by the spec. If it's just to the error console, we can do whatever we want. Do you have someth

Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Oh, that is a _very_ interesting idea. I wonder whether we can get that > specced, or at least allowed by the spec. If it's just to the error console, we can do whatever we want. Do you have something else in mind? -- http://annevankester

Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 8/9/13 5:54 AM, Neil wrote: (For instance I suspect it might be feasible for DOM promises to report any pending exception when they get garbage collected.) Oh, that is a _very_ interesting idea. I wonder whether we can get that specced, or at least allowed by the spec. -Boris __

Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread Neil
Paolo Amadini wrote: This is a quick reminder to anyone writing or reviewing code that uses "Promise.jsm". How do the other promise implementations in the tree compare in this respect? (For instance I suspect it might be feasible for DOM promises to report any pending exception when they g