Re: Promise/Future: asynchrony in 'then'

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 1, 2013, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Claus Reinke <claus.reinke@talk21.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The promises-aplus spec has a note that confuses me
>> >
>> >    https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec#notes
>> >
>> >    1. In practical terms, an implementation must use a mechanism such
>> > as
>> > setTimeout, setImmediate, or process.nextTick to ensure that
>> > onFulfilled
>> > and onRejected are not invoked in the same turn of the    event loop as
>> > the
>> > call to then to which they are passed.
>> >
>> > I have not yet been able to decide whether DOMFuture has a
>> > similar provision, or how this note is meant to be interpreted.
>>
>> Juan already pointed out the "queue a task" language, so this is answered.
>
>
> This is far too glib. The spec may very well be wrong on this point. The
> design goal isn't to require a full yeild of the event loop, but instead to
> force async code flow -- that means that resolving and calling back should
> be able to happen at "end of microtask"; the same timing as Object.observe()
> callbacks.

Possibly true, but those are details.  The context of my response was
someone asking about whether DOMFutures described asynchrony *at all*.
 The spec does mandate asynchrony, even if it might be the wrong kind
of asynchrony.  ^_^

~TJ