March 22, 2011
12:28 p.m.
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 21:30 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
The former is a tutorial that I tried to make informal as possible, and the latter is a fixup and rewrite of defer.xhtml stuff to make it a bit less, uh, dense.
I like the fixup, it's a good start, especially explaining the motivation. We can probably drop the "generating deferreds" and "deferreds in depth" howtos too by merging in any minor details they mention that this doesn't. Some parts are still cumbersome, e.g. "However, a Deferred is not a token that allows you to get a specific result back. You can only get the result by adding callback. This is because you can add..."