Re: Future cancellation

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Lucas Smith wrote:
>
>> IMO, cancelation is not appropriate for promises/futures. (sticking with
>> the name "promises", sorry for the distraction).
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
Agree as well.   More conceptually, we must not conflate *operations* with
*results*.  "Cancel" is an action that applies to operations, not results.

{ Kevin }