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0 pointsthayne6y ago0 comments

> An alternative design would have kept await, but supported async not as a function-modifier, but as an expression modifier.

How is that different than an `async` block?

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brandonbloom6y ago

It's not. I didn't realize Rust had that, but the rest of my comment still applies: it would be nice if asynchrony was transparent to intermediate functions and compiled via specialization.

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0 pointsthayne6y ago0 comments

> An alternative design would have kept await, but supported async not as a function-modifier, but as an expression modifier.

How is that different than an `async` block?

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brandonbloom6y ago

It's not. I didn't realize Rust had that, but the rest of my comment still applies: it would be nice if asynchrony was transparent to intermediate functions and compiled via specialization.

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