0.0.0 • Published 13 years ago

retro v0.0.0

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13 years ago

#RETRO

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A lib that harkens back to the old days when everything was an acronym and you had to shout at the computer to get it to do anything.

RETRO provides a bold new set of async control flow statesments in CAPS.

retro.IF(test).THEN(function).ELSE(function)

retro.NOT(function)
retro.TRUE //function that calls back true
retro.FALSE //function that calls back false

retro
  .TRY(function)
  .CATCH(function)    // called if try errors
  .PASS(function)     // called if try does not error
  .FINALLY(function)  // called after CATCH/PASS wether or not TRY errored. 
                      // (unless CATCH or PASS errored)

retro
  .TRY(function)
  .FINALLY(function) // CATCH/PASS are optional

retro
  .WHILE(test)       // async test
  .DO(function)      // perform this function

retro
  .DO(function)      // the same, but DO first, then check. 
  .WHILE(test)

retro
  .FOR_EACH(array)
  .DO(function)      // DO this FOR_EACH item in the array

retro.UNTIL(test)    // same as while, but do until test fails
  .DO(function)

retro
  .DO(function)
  .UNTIL(test)

retro
  .OPEN_PANDORA_BOX() // install monkeypatches onto global context

thinking outloud TRY...CATCH...FINALLY will probably be the most useful. because often one does use an async error value to test something.

sync if returns.