Use the promise(fn) notation

[ForbesLindesay]

We could have a promise(fn) method which returns a promise, and calls the function with the resolver for that promise.

Advantages

• discoverable via .constructor property of a promise (see discovery of resolver #5)
• supports prototypal inheritance (see Extended promise objects #6)
• consistent with other promise-creation

Disadvantages

• Increased nesting
• Extra function keyword
• deffereds will receive a lot less hate once we have ES6

Summary

I'm very much in favour of this proposal

[domenic]

Given what I discovered in #5, I think this approach should definitely exist. Whether we do deferreds also is a different question, but I'm coming around to a promise constructor idea using this pattern.

[ForbesLindesay]

I think if we do go with this as our primary promise creation method, we need to strictly enforce that fn is called in the same turn of the event loop. That way it would be possible to do something like:

function Deferred() {
  if (!(this instanceof Deferred)) return new Deferred();
  var resolver;
  var promise = new Promise(function (res) { resolver = res; });
  this.resolver = resolver;
  this.promise = promise;
}

[lsmith]

@ForbesLindesay Good point about fn being called in the same turn of the event loop. In a Deferred + Promise implementation, the creation of the pair is synchronous, and the setup code to resolve the promise would (or at least could and usually would) then occur directly afterward. For parity with this expectation, it would be worth it to specify that the executor function, as I've taken to calling it, is executed synchronously.