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by Miky 5312 days ago
Monadic sugar is probably not the way to go for implementing an automatic continuation-passing transform. Why not just do macros?
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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.

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.