[swift-evolution] New async keyword usage

Trevör Anne Denise trevor.annedenise at icloud.com
Sat Aug 26 04:26:34 CDT 2017


> Le 26 août 2017 à 07:07, Howard Lovatt <howard.lovatt at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> I just don't see that async/await adds enough to warrant a language change. You can write Future on top of GCD and a future type can do more, like having a cancel, having a timeout, and giving control over what thread is used.
> 
>   -- Howard.
> 

Do you mean async/await as in concurrency proposal or the usage of async at call site?

Trevör


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