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Promise

A promise is an object returned by an asynchronous function, which represents the current state of the operation. At the time the promise is returned to the caller, the operation often isn’t finished, but the promise object provides methods to handle the eventual success or failure of the operation.

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Created by Barbara Liskov, Liuba Shrira, Mark S. Miller, Dean Tribble, Rob Jellinghaus, Daniel P. Friedman

Released 1988

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