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Re:Roy — small functional language that compiles to JavaScript by pufuwozu on Friday November 25, 2011 @10:02PM (#3278941)
Monads suit the problem nicely and it's been done in quite a few languages already:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4117

http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/100

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Async_Workf...

This is something that JavaScript desperately needs.

Macros aren't so nice for this stuff in non-homoiconic languages.

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Re:Roy — small functional language that compiles to JavaScript by Miky on Saturday November 26, 2011 @02:11PM (#3280442)
I previously had a someone antagonistic comment, but I decided to remove it.

I think that finding ways to notate asynchronous code cleanly is a pretty awesome goal, and I hope you find success in your project.

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