<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Of course, Foundation API has no way of distinguishing if the caller is considered a script or not.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If the API is a bad idea for other kinds of apps then we simply wouldn’t add it. So, I think this proposed convenience API needs to consider all of the varied clients of Foundation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Tony<br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 28, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon <<a href="mailto:brent@architechies.com" class="">brent@architechies.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 28, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Tony Parker <<a href="mailto:anthony.parker@apple.com" class="">anthony.parker@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Why does it imply a run loop rather than one of many multithreading possibilities (dispatch queue, starting one more thread, etc)? And even if it did use run loops, why is that a problem?</span></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The problem is simply that we're discussing using this feature in Swift *scripts*. Swift scripts don't typically invoke `RunLoop.run()` or `dispatch_main()`, and without changing the way they generate main() functions to intrinsically do so (and then schedule main.swift's body on the main runloop/queue), I don't see a good way for it to do so. So an async API would be inconvenient to use from a Swift script.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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