icedcoffeescript question

gistfile1.coffee

# can await be made to not return from function until it is done?

fs = require("fs")
readfile = (fn) ->
  await fs.readFile fn, "utf8", defer(err,res)
  #console.log "res: ", res
  return res

a = readfile("dbtest.coffee")
console.log a # a is undefined

Turtles all the way up:

fs = require("fs")
readfile = (fn, cb) ->
  await fs.readFile fn, "utf8", defer(err,res)
  #console.log "res: ", res
  cb err, res

await readfile "dbtest.coffee", defer err, a
console.log a # a is undefined