[squeak-dev] Promise resolve

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Dec 15 02:47:30 UTC 2018


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:30 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> It sounds like a reasonable convenience method.
>
> I am curious though - in what case is there an instance of Promise
> that should not be resolved with an actual value?
>

When you use that computation for its side-effects.

That is, chaining a series of actions in time can be done using promises,
but the value passed is irrelevant.

- Bert -
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