[67] A passage from Civil Remedies in Malaysia may make the point clearer where the learned author states the following at p 14:
It has been explained that ‘[a] contract is a contract from the time it is made, and not from the time performance is due’. The promisee, while awaiting performance, is entitled to assume that the promisor will himself remain ready, willing and able to perform his side of the contract at the agreed date. Any conduct by the promisor which destroys this assumption ‘is a breach of a presently binding promise, not an anticipatory breach of an act to be done in the future’. In Frost v Knight, the defendant in retracting his promise to marry the plaintiff, violated not a future but an existing obligation. (Emphasis added.)
