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  2. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, futures, promises, delays, and deferreds are constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages.Each is an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is not yet complete.

  3. Async/await - Wikipedia

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    Functions with promises also have promise aggregation methods that allow the program to await multiple promises at once or in some special pattern (such as C#'s Task.WhenAll(), [1]: 174–175 [13]: 664–665 which returns a valueless Task that resolves when all of the tasks in the arguments have resolved). Many promise types also have ...

  4. JavaScript syntax - Wikipedia

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    If an object is compared with a number or string, JavaScript attempts to return the default value for the object. An object is converted to a primitive String or Number value, using the .valueOf() or .toString() methods of the object.

  5. Continuation-passing style - Wikipedia

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    This is contrasted with direct style, which is the usual style of programming. Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr. coined the phrase in AI Memo 349 (1975), which sets out the first version of the Scheme programming language. [1] [2] John C. Reynolds gives a detailed account of the numerous discoveries of continuations. [3]

  6. Scripting for the Java Platform - Wikipedia

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    Scripting for the Java Platform is a framework for embedding scripts into Java source code. ... but the Oracle JVM (Java 6 and later) includes a JavaScript engine, ...

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    If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online!

  8. Syntactic sugar - Wikipedia

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    Similarly an array element update is a procedure consisting of three arguments, for example set_array(Array, vector(i,j), value), but many languages also provide syntax such as Array[i,j] = value. A construct in a language is syntactic sugar if it can be removed from the language without any effect on what the language can do: functionality and ...

  9. Map (higher-order function) - Wikipedia

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    In many programming languages, map is a higher-order function that applies a given function to each element of a collection, e.g. a list or set, returning the results in a collection of the same type.