angular/angular.js — pull request #4317 by IgorMinar (2013-10-07 19:05:10+00:00)
Title: fix($parse): make promise unwrapping opt-in

Previously promises found anywhere in the expression during expression
evaluation would evaluate to undefined while unresolved and to the
fulfillment value if fulfilled.

This is a feature that didn't prove to be wildly useful or popular,
primarily because of the dichotomy between data access in templates
(accessed as raw values) and controller code (accessed as promises).

In most code we ended up resolving promises manually in controllers
anyway and thus unifying the model access there.

Other downsides of automatic promise unwrapping:

- when building components it's often desirable to receive the
raw promises
- adds complexity and slows down expression evaluation
- makes expression code pre-generation unattractive due to the
amount of code that needs to be generated
- makes IDE auto-completion and tool support hard
- adds too much magic

Closes #4158
Closes #4270