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by Aleman360 4019 days ago
Microsoft uses "Task". I like that way better.
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yelnatz 4019 days ago
That term actually makes the subject much more understandable.
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masklinn 4019 days ago
It doesn't. "Task" has a notion of side-effect and no notion of yielding a value. Except a task can yield a value and have no side-effect.
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Cakez0r 4019 days ago
and also the aptly named "TaskCompletionSource", which would be the promise equivalent (using Facebook's terminology)
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jmtulloss 4019 days ago
That is, their terminology for this project. In facebook's Bolts framework for iOS they use Task and TaskCompletionSource https://github.com/BoltsFramework/Bolts-iOS#tasks
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