Feat/Doc: Cancelling tasks, subscriptions
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Description
I gotta think about this a bit.
- Subscriptions are sometimes a better model. But "subscriptions" aren't intuitive for discrete tasks.
- Cancellation implies eagerness. Tasks are lazy. You can't cancel something that hasn't happened.
- You want to get a cancellable object back after dispatching the task.
- Task -> Execution (cancellable) -> Result
- Most of the time, you want the execution to be transparent.
```
task = xhr "google.com"
execution <- do task
// one of:
status <- cancel execution
result <- execution
```
but also:
```
task = xhr "google.com"
result <- do task
```
Prefer an API that's monomorphic– we don't actually want to overload `do task`.
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