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

That would definitely look weird and IMO would violate the principle of least astonishment.
 
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 From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
To: www-dom@w3.org 
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [promises] Difficulties with using constructors and promises  together
 

On 6/19/13 6:32 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> A few examples:
> * createImageBitmap()
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/timers.html#images>
> * TaskScheduler.add() <http://web-alarms.sysapps.org/#interface-taskscheduler>

Apart from it not being supported yet in WebIDL, and possibly looking a 
bit weird from the point of view of a JS programmer, is there something 
in principle that prevents "new Foo()" from returning a Promise<Foo>?

-Boris