<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Why wouldn’t b wait for a in this example? If it is using futures, those aren’t available in the current proposal.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 25, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Florent Vilmart <<a href="mailto:florent@flovilmart.com" class="">florent@flovilmart.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">let a = longCalculationA() </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">let b = longCalculationB() //b doesn’t wait for a to complete before starting</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">let c = longCalculationC() //c doesn’t wait for a or b</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">let (aResult, bResult, cResult) = await Future.collect(a, b, c) //waits until a, b, and c are all available</div>
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On 25 août 2017 17:48 -0400, wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">let a = async longCalculationA()<br class="">
let b = async longCalculationB() //b doesn’t wait for a to complete before starting<br class="">
let c = async longCalculationC() //c doesn’t wait for a or b<br class="">
let result = await combineCalculations(a: a, b: b, c: c) //waits until a, b, and c are all available</div>
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