funcool / funcool/promesa

Sequential computation macro

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Description

It would be great if there was a way to run a series of promises sequentially, waiting for the previous one to finish, and return a vec of all promises for use with `p/all`. This is different to creating a map of promise returning functions as that would run in parallel not sequentially. See [discussion on Slack here](https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C03S1L9DN/p1702741749869629).

Here is an implementation using `reduce`:

```clojure
(p/let [result
(p/all
(reduce
(fn [col panel-choice]
(conj col
(p/let [_ (last col)]
(something-returning-promise panel-choice))))
[]
panel-choices))]
(print "reduce" result))
```

Here is an implementation using `p/loop` and `p/recur`:

```clojure
(p/let [result
(p/loop [choices panel-choices results []]
(if (empty? choices)
results
(p/let [result (something-returning-promise
(first choices))]
(p/recur (rest choices)
(conj results result)))))]
(print "loop/recur" result))
```

You can test this in `nbb` with `promises.cljs` here:
https://gist.github.com/chr15m/c5f943b6aa2c6089c04f04897b3cef81

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the sequential examples in nbb with the referenced promises.cljs gist, comparing the reduce and p/loop approaches against p/all. Review the existing promise and macro entry points in promesa to determine where the requested API belongs; done means a documented way to collect promise results sequentially while preserving the intended waiting behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
clojure
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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