[squeak-dev] Promise resolve

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Dec 15 02:54:38 UTC 2018


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 06:47:30PM -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 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 -

Thanks, that makes sense.

And +1 for the update.



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