Re: Promises: final steps

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk-6shE6wEKUUpmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:
> As many of you hopefully know, we're trying to nail down the design of
> promises in JavaScript so we can declare consensus on it and start
> shipping it in implementations. If you're interested in the
> particulars I strongly recommend reading through
> https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/blob/master/README.md
> and partaking in the
> https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/issues discussion. The
> next TC39 is coming close and this really needs to be resolved (not
> settled!) by then as there are many APIs relying on promises now.
>
> Eg in https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/issues/8 we
> decided on Promise.cast() as IsPromise(x) ? x : Promise.resolve(x).
>
> https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/issues/18 suggests
> adding Promise.prototype.finally() and
> https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/issues/13 discusses
> which convenience methods we should add in the first iteration.
>
> I suggest we focus on the minimal subset that works (which I know is
> different for people, but let's aim for consensus) and then iterate
> again after we have a couple of implementations out there.

I'm fine with the subset defined in Domenic's spec - it's compatible
with what we've discussed, and is easy to extend into the flatMap
semantics I want.

I've commented on the issue threads in github.

~TJ