TODO.md

TODO

Tasks:

• Support outlet detachment
  • Pipe
  • Inlet + subclasses
  • Pipe combinators
• Event class to represent next/error/done events
• PropertyInlet
• Scheduler replace work_queue
  • SyncScheduler
  • AsyncScheduler
    • with autodetecting async method for exec env (see Bluebird's impl)
  • AttachmentScheduler (private)
    • Figure out if AttachmentScheduler is even necessary, or just use currentScheduler()
• Refactor to reduce send*/attachOutlet code dupe
• SharedPipe
• Make a browser build
  • Include an in-browser test runner
• Populate important RAC/Rx combinators

Decisions:

• How to handle/propagate errors?
• Include AsyncInlet?
  • thinking of renaming Promise to APlusPromise, and including a Promise/Future/Singlet that's just HistoryInlet(1).take(1)
• Nomenclature
  • Go with 'Pipe' analogies? leaning: yes
    • If so, what to call cancellable subscription handles? Tap/Coupling/Subscription/Bond? leaning: 'Bond'
  • Or fall back to RAC names? (Signal et al.)
• How to expose a scheduling API (see src/schedulers)
• Clean API for different merge/join strategies
  • mergeMap/concatMap & mergeJoin/concatJoin?
• Rename HistoryInlet to BufferInlet or CacheInlet?
• How to handle library adapters?

Ideas:

• A+ compliant Promise with monadic interface
• A debug mode that captures & extends stack traces
• Backpressure!
• Automatically track important properties on Pipe, e.g.
  • will it finish? yes/no/maybe
  • value(s) sent on attachment? yes/no
  • side effects? no/maybe