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Either way, it may be useful to define \"a future whose value will never arrive\" as a concrete initializer, rather than wrapping a `Deferred` that you never intend to fill (`let f = Future<Foo>(Deferred())`).\r\n\r\n## API Changes\r\n\r\nPurely additive."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bignerdranch/Deferred/issues/comments/202404419","html_url":"https://github.com/bignerdranch/Deferred/pull/82#issuecomment-202404419","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bignerdranch/Deferred/issues/82","id":202404419,"user":{"login":"jeremy-w","id":29010,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/29010?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w","html_url":"https://github.com/jeremy-w","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jeremy-w/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-28T13:57:49Z","updated_at":"2016-03-28T13:57:49Z","body":"@zwaldowski  What's that dummy image link from? It's the clearest presentation I've yet seen of the test double taxonomy."}}