Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
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Utility library implementing tooling to make stoppable functions...
XXX concept and theory of operation...
This library enables the user to drop out of a function/generator without the
need to thread the result through the call stack. This is in concept similar to
executing `return ..` from a nested loop to terminate and return from a function
but `stoppable.js` allows us to do the same from a nested set of function calls.
This is also similar to _Python_'s `raise StopIteration` approach to stopping
iteration.
- [stoppable.js](#stoppablejs)
- [Install / import](#install--import)
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var value = func() // -> 'something'
```
Dropping out of recursion avoiding threading the result up the chain:
```javascript
// Note that we split the recursive part and the interface part, this is done
// to keep the STOP catching only to the top level and thus avoid threading
// the result back up the recursion...
var _find = function(L, e){
if(L.length == 0){
throw stoppable.STOP(false) }
if(L[0] == e){
throw stoppable.STOP(true) }
// look further down...
_find(L.slice(1), e) }
var find = stoppable(_find)
find([1,2,3,4,5,6,7], 6) // -> true
```
For more examples see [`type.js`' `Array.prototype.smap(..)` and friends](https://github.com/flynx/types.js#arraysmap--arraysfilter--arraysreduce--arraysforeach).
### Async function
```javascript