caolan
Use more concrete examples
There's a lot of ambiguity in the examples that slowed me down in understanding what exactly was going on. I think if the examples were fully functional, it would help a lot in quickly learning what this library is capable of.
For example, readFile here is left to the users' imagination. A concrete, working example that I can use out of the box would be more helpful:
var data = _(filenames).map(readFile).parallel(4);
Agreed. One format could be a chart which maps features from the 'async' library to the highland equivalent.
I tried a map().parallel(n) action, but it does nothing. I think the issue is that I don't have anywhere I want to pipe() the data to. The transformation step in map() is all I need.
@markstos sounds like that map() is really an each() - using each() causes a 'thunk' so it'll pull the data through like piping
:+1: Please make all the examples small but complete programs that you could save as a file run pass to node and have it work. Many of them are really really biased towards "the reader fully understands everything EXCEPT what this specific function does". data.pipe(output); is really frustrating.
👍 - Yes I spent hours on what looks to be very useful. I can't work out how to use it.
Thanks for the prod. I definitely agree that our examples need work. I'll try to flesh them out some.
