Message from JavaScript discussions

July 2017

— The mess is caused by the difference in the sequence... we need to get a template if we don't have it cached, so it kind of mucks up the flow of things

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Hm, I think if I inline the cache check in the actual insertion function, I can just use the same one everywhere, maybe that would help...

— Ugh

— I hate the

if (a) {
  if (c) { ... }
  if (d) { ... }
}
if (b) {
  if (c) { ... }
  if (d) { ... }
}

sequences you sometimes have to do

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— So much repetition

— Yeah, me no likey!

— In your case c and d are conf.isFile and conf.async

— Yes

— Why not just have it always return a promise?

— That's an interesting idea, I guess

— What's the difference between insertionThunk and saveInsertionThunk ?

— This