[swift-evolution] [Concurrency] async/await + actors

Georgios Moschovitis george.moschovitis at icloud.com
Sat Aug 19 10:16:00 CDT 2017


Also, notice the consistency

keyword: throw, return type marker: throws      (‘monadic’ Result<T>)
keyword: yield, return type marker: yields        (‘monadic’ Future<T>)

-g.

> On 19 Aug 2017, at 1:23 PM, Georgios Moschovitis via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I am wondering, am I the only one that *strongly* prefers `yield` over `await`?
> 
> Superficially, `await` seems like the standard term, but given the fact that the proposal is about coroutines, I think `yield` is actually the proper name. Also, subjectively, it sounds much better/elegant to me!
> 
> -g.
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