domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-08-29T19:19:08.841Z)
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>wrote: > 4\. Make Promise() called without new analogous to String/etc - passing > it a promise returns the argument unchanged, passing it anything else > wraps it in a fresh promise. Assuming that we can polyfill this new-vs-non-new behavior test reliably on ES5. Otherwise we still need a static method such as Promise.as().
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote: > > Mark S. Miller wrote: > >> > >> > >> Cool. That means we get a decent naming precedent for the monad > ops, > >> and consistency with Array.of (which also happens to be a monadic > >> lifter, if you limit yourself to calling it with only a single > >> argument). > >> > >> > >> I agree that this naming analogy is a good thing. I raise my approval > >> magnitude to +1 ;). > > > > > > Bart: Are we there yet? > > Homer: Just a little further... > > Bart: Are we there yet? > > Homer: Just a little further... > > etc. > > > > Can someone summarize for those of us who accidentally skipped a bunch of > > unread messages here? It sounds good from the last post ;-). > > Yup! > > 1. Keep Promise.resolve() as it currently works (but make sure that it > merely adopts promises passed to it, rather than deep-flattens). > 2. Rename Promise.accept() to Promise.of() (for consistency with > Array.of, and to provide a better naming base for monads in the > future). > 3. Kill PromiseResolver#accept(). > 4. Make Promise() called without new analogous to String/etc - passing > it a promise returns the argument unchanged, passing it anything else > wraps it in a fresh promise. > Assuming that we can polyfill this new-vs-non-new behavior test reliably on ES5. Otherwise we still need a static method such as Promise.as(). > > ~TJ > -- Cheers, --MarkM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20130821/52beede0/attachment.html>