[pufuwozu]

The example sucks but is very simple.

I didn't add monadic sugar just to be part of the "cargo cult". I added it because I'm eventually going to use it to implement an automatic continuation-passing transform. I've done a similar thing before with ClojureScript's macros:

http://brianmckenna.org/blog/cps_transform_js

[Miky]

Monadic sugar is probably not the way to go for implementing an automatic continuation-passing transform. Why not just do macros?

[pufuwozu]

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.

[Miky]

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.