Re: [promises] Difficulties with using constructors and promises together

Agreed. Since posting I have liked this even less. I withdraw the
suggestion.


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Mark S. Miller <erights@google.com>
> wrote:
> > Not sure I like this:
> >
> > What about invoking the constructor function as a function, i.e., without
> > the "new". If it cannot create the object synchronously, then it can't
> > return the object synchronously, so there really is no constructor
> function
> > per se. So the name may as well just name a factory function which is
> just
> > called normally.
>
> Yeah, I don't like this either.  I think it violates Least Surprise -
> when the new-less constructor function works, it usually just still
> returns a new object in practice.  (I do this sometimes when I'm gonna
> use a constructor a *ton* - just start the function with "if(!(this
> instanceof MyClass)) return new MyClass(arg1, arg2);".)
>
> ~TJ
>



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