domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

cosimo

#!/bin/bash
#
# Example of how to parse short/long options with 'getopt'
#

OPTS=`getopt -o vhns: --long verbose,dry-run,help,stack-size: -n 'parse-options' -- "$@"`

if [ $? != 0 ] ; then echo "Failed parsing options." >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi

echo "$OPTS"

ryanflorence

###
Initialize a new `Emitter`.

@api public
###
module.exports = Emitter = (obj) ->
  return mixin(obj) if obj
  @_callbacks = {}

###

ryanflorence

increment = do ->
  x = 0
  ->
    x++