On 10/8/2013 12:34 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
Also, this JS is invalid because a generator function cannot return a
value through "return." For people learning at home, a working
implementation is:
function add2(a, b) {
return Task.spawn(function () {
let sum = yield a + b;
throw new T
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> On 10/8/13 9:14 PM, Dave Townsend wrote:
>
>> I was asked to clarify what I meant by my two examples so here are some
>> snippets of code that illustrate it. This is forcibly async but you get
>> the
>> point I hope. If you want to add three
On 10/8/13 9:14 PM, Dave Townsend wrote:
I was asked to clarify what I meant by my two examples so here are some
snippets of code that illustrate it. This is forcibly async but you get the
point I hope. If you want to add three numbers you can define:
function add3(foo, bar, baz) {
return Tas
> I'm going to claim that the latter method of returning a new task promise
> is the one we should use in general. It makes the function more easily
> usable outside of a task since you're just getting a promise back. It is
> also what Task.jsm does internally for generators anyway.
I fully agree
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
> On 10/8/2013 3:14 PM, Dave Townsend wrote:
> > I was asked to clarify what I meant by my two examples so here are some
> > snippets of code that illustrate it. This is forcibly async but you get
> the
> > point I hope. If you want to add th
On 10/8/2013 3:14 PM, Dave Townsend wrote:
> I was asked to clarify what I meant by my two examples so here are some
> snippets of code that illustrate it. This is forcibly async but you get the
> point I hope. If you want to add three numbers you can define:
>
> function add3(foo, bar, baz) {
>
I was asked to clarify what I meant by my two examples so here are some
snippets of code that illustrate it. This is forcibly async but you get the
point I hope. If you want to add three numbers you can define:
function add3(foo, bar, baz) {
return Task.spawn(() => {
let sum = yield add2(foo
On 10/08/2013 12:00 PM, dev-platform-requ...@lists.mozilla.org wrote:
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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:47:52 -0700
From: Dave Townsend
To: dev-platform
Subject: Coding style for functions called by Task.jsm tasks
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As Task.jsm
As Task.jsm is used more throughout our code it would be good to try to use
similar sorts of patterns to avoid confusion.
One difference I've spotted is in how to write asynchronous functions that
are called by tasks. One way is to simply write the function as a
generator, the other is to write th
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