[CommonJS] Event API Proposals

[Kris Kowal]

[was: Module Naming Convention [was: Strategy]]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:52 PM, jhuni <jhu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I agree, however, it would be nice to still be able to have some
> events to listen to synchronous operations.

http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Events/A
http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Events/B

> Also I think it would be
> nice to use object literals in there somewhere.

A multi-observe method would be a nice convenience. But, again,
buying only what you need, it should be an option to only observe one
event.

Kris Kowal

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[Kris Kowal]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Kris Kowal <cowber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree, however, it would be nice to still be able to have some
>> events to listen to synchronous operations.
>
> http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Events/A
> http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Events/B

Correction, there are presently four proposals and no convergence presently.

http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Events

Links to the relevant discussions appear not to have been cataloged.
That'll have to be rectified, but please search for them in the
interim.

[jhuni]

This is interesting... What I am wondering is how these things relate
to method modifiers. Joose lets you do before, after, around,
override, and augment...

http://code.google.com/p/joose-js/wiki/MethodModifiers

It would be nice to use a similar thing on events as a way of
"observing before another observer" like in Events/A

[Wes Garland]

Kris:

Multi-observe methods, like, registering two callbacks for the same event?

That is *SO* handy I would really really support it as a base level interface. It's also easy to implement.

SO handy -- great way, for example, to write a debugging layer for a mis-behaving daemon build with Node's net API.

Wes

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