Re: Question re Promises and interaction with rest of JS

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>>> You don't have access to the state of asynchronous operations.
>>
>> So, no *possible* access to any information, by say a determined or
>> even malicious attacker?
>
> No. The algorithms defined by the specification say as much. You can
> observe the returned promise, but it doesn't reveal state. And it
> won't reveal a value until the algorithms defined by the specification
> are done and either resolve or reject the promise.

Great! That's the right way to do a programming language.

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Received on Tuesday, 6 May 2014 18:40:37 UTC