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Jean Hugues Robert <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >This is interesting. You probably had at look at taskjs.org. Generators >are kinds of structured fibers that, yes, can be "abused" to provide some >form of threading. How "unobstrusive" this can be remains to be fully >explored, as you do, in good company (see also streamline implementation >using generators, an interesting exploration too). > >Your approach reminds me about the "await" construct in C#, the"yield" in >your example really means "await". > >After much thinking, I came to the conclusion that this flow control issue >is not such a big deal, solutions like "promise/a" demonstrates that async >activities can be orchestrated in a readable way without threads. Besides, >early implementations of generators are apparently rather slow (fibers are >fast, non standard... and controversial). > >I am conducting an experiment about a similar control flow problem, here is >one result: > > var Parole = require('l8/lib/whisper'), fs = require( 'fs' ); > > > > var read = Parole(); fs.readFile( __filename, read ); > > read.on( function( err, data ){ console.log( data.toString( 'utf8' ); } ); > > // or: read.then( function( data ){ console.log( data.toString( 'utf8' ); >} ); > > >This is more concise, does not have the array destructuring issue, runs >today everywhere and is readable once you understand that a Parole() is an >extended Function suitable as a node.js callback. > >See https://github.com/JeanHuguesRobert/l8/wiki/ParoleReference. You may be >surprised by the P.generator() easy way of defining an async generator >using today's javascript. > >Yours, > > Jean Hugues > > > > > > >-- >-- >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. > > -- -- 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.
