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<div name="messageBodySection" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, sans-serif;">I can see where you're going with that. 
<div>For me, the big unknown (and unspecified so far) is
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<div>let result = process() // what is result? CoroutineType<Image> ? </div>
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<div>or am I missing something here?</div>
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On 28 août 2017 16:07 -0400, Adam Kemp <adam.kemp@apple.com>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="margin: 5px 5px; padding-left: 10px; border-left: thin solid #1abc9c;">I think the biggest tradeoff is clearer when you look at the examples from the proposal where futures are built on top of async/await:
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<div class="">  let imageResource = Future { await loadWebResource("imagedata.dat") }</div>
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<div class="">  let imageTmp    = await decodeImage(dataResource.get(), imageResource.get())</div>
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With this approach you have to wrap each call site to create a future. Compare to this:
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<div class="">  let imageResourceFuture = loadWebResource("imagedata.dat”);</div>
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<div class="">  // ... other stuff can go here to cover load latency...</div>
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<div class="">  let imageTmp    = await decodeImage(await dataResourceFuture, await imageResourceFuture)</div>
<div class="">  let imageResult = await dewarpAndCleanupImage(imageTmp)</div>
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Here, not only are the explicit wrappers gone, but this function itself can be used with either await or as a future. You get both options with one implementation.</div>
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<div class="">As I’ve mentioned before, C#’s implementation is not tied to any one particular futures implementation. The Task type is commonly used, but async/await does not directly depend on Task. Instead it works with any return type that meets certain requirements (detailed here: <a href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pfxteam/2011/01/13/await-anything/" class="">https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pfxteam/2011/01/13/await-anything/</a>). Swift could do this using a protocol, which can be retroactively applied using an extension.</div>
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<div class="">Obviously for this to be useful we would need some kind of existing future implementation, but at least we wouldn’t be tied to any particular one. That would mean library maintainers who have already been using their own futures implementations could quickly adopt async/await in their code without having to rewrite their futures library or throw wrappers around every usage of async/await. They could just adopt a protocol (using an extension, even) and get async/await support for free.</div>
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<div class="">The downside is that this feature would be specific to the async/await use case rather than a generic coroutine implementation (i.e., there would have to be a separate compiler transform for yield return). It’s not clear to me why it should be a goal to have just one generic coroutine feature. The real-world usages of async/await and yield return are different enough that I’m not convinced we could have a single compiler feature that meets the needs of both cleanly.</div>
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<div class="">On Aug 27, 2017, at 7:35 PM, Florent Vilmart <<a href="mailto:florent@flovilmart.com" class="">florent@flovilmart.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div name="messageBodySection" class="">Adam, you’re completely right, languages as c# and JS have been through the path before, (callback, Promises , async/await) I believe Chris’s goal it to avoid building a promise implementation and go straight to a coroutines model, which is more deeply integrated with the compiler. I don’t see a particular trade off, pursuing that route, and the main benefit is that coroutines can power any asynchronous metaphor (Signals, Streams, Futures, Promises etc...) which is not true of Futures so i would tend to think that for the long run, and to maximize usability, async/await/yield would probably be the way to go.</div>
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On Aug 27, 2017, 22:22 -0400, Adam Kemp <<a href="mailto:adam.kemp@apple.com" class="">adam.kemp@apple.com</a>>, wrote:<br class="" />
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<div class="">As has been explained, futures can be built on top of async/await (or the other way around). You can have the best of both worlds. We are not losing anything by having this feature. It would be a huge improvement to have this as an option. </div>
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<div class="">However, using futures correctly requires more nested closures than you have shown in your examples to avoid blocking any threads. That's why you're not seeing the advantage to async/await. You're comparing examples that have very different behaviors.</div>
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<div class="">That said, I have also expressed my opinion that it is better to build async/await on top of futures rather than the other way around. I believe it is more powerful and cleaner to make async/await work with any arbitrary future type (via a protocol). The alternative (building futures on top of async/await) requires more code when the two are mixed. I very much prefer how it's done in C#, where you can freely mix the two models without having to resort to ad-hoc wrappers, and you can use async/await with any futures implementation you might already be using.</div>
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<div class="">I really think we should be having more discussion about the tradeoffs between those two approaches, and I'm concerned that some of the opinions about how C# does it are not based on a clear and accurate understanding of how it actually works in that language. </div>
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On Aug 27, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Howard Lovatt <<a href="mailto:howard.lovatt@gmail.com" class="">howard.lovatt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="" />
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<div dir="ltr" class="">The async/await is very similar to the proposed Future (as I posed earlier) with regard to completion-handler code, they both re-write the imported completion-handler function using a closure, the relevant sentence from the Async Proposal is:
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<div class="">Unlike the proposed future code the async code is not naturally parallel, in the running example the following lines from the async code are run in series, i.e. await blocks:</div>
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<pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace;font-size:13.6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.45;word-wrap:normal;padding:16px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(246,248,250);border-radius:3px;word-break:normal;color:rgb(36,41,46)" class=""> <span class="gmail-pl-k" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(215,58,73)">let</span> dataResource <span class="gmail-pl-k" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(215,58,73)">=</span> await <span class="gmail-pl-c1" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,92,197)">loadWebResource</span>(<span class="gmail-pl-s" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(3,47,98)"><span class="gmail-pl-pds" style="box-sizing:border-box">"</span>dataprofile.txt<span class="gmail-pl-pds" style="box-sizing:border-box">"</span></span>)
<span class="gmail-pl-k" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(215,58,73)">let</span> imageResource <span class="gmail-pl-k" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(215,58,73)">=</span> await <span class="gmail-pl-c1" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,92,197)">loadWebResource</span>(<span class="gmail-pl-s" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(3,47,98)"><span class="gmail-pl-pds" style="box-sizing:border-box">"</span>imagedata.dat<span class="gmail-pl-pds" style="box-sizing:border-box">"</span></span>)
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<div class="">The equivalent lines using the proposed Future:</div>
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<span class="gmail-pl-k" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(215,58,73)">let</span> imageResource <span class="gmail-pl-k" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(215,58,73)">=</span> <span class="gmail-pl-c1" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,92,197)">loadWebResource</span>(<span class="gmail-pl-s" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(3,47,98)"><span class="gmail-pl-pds" style="box-sizing:border-box">"</span>imagedata.dat<span class="gmail-pl-pds" style="box-sizing:border-box">"</span></span>)
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<div class="">Run in parallel and therefore are potentially faster assuming that resources, like cores and IO, are available.</div>
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<div class="">Therefore you would be better using a Future than an async, so why provide an async unless you can make a convincing argument that it allows you to write a better future?</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">This example still has nested closures (to create a Future), and still relies on a synchronous get method that will block a thread. Async/await does not require blocking any threads.
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<div class="">I’m definitely a fan of futures, but this example isn’t even a good example of using futures. If you’re using a synchronous get method then you’re not using futures properly. They’re supposed to make it easy to avoid writing blocking code. This example just does the blocking call on some other thread.</div>
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<div class="">Doing it properly would show the benefits of async/await because it would require more nesting and more complex error handling. By simplifying the code you’ve made a comparison between proper asynchronous code (with async/await) and improper asynchronous code (your example).</div>
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<div class="">That tendency to want to just block a thread to make it easier is exactly why async/await is so valuable. You get simple code while still doing it correctly. </div>
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On Aug 27, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="" />
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<div dir="auto" class="">The running example used in the white paper coded using a Future is:</div>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">func processImageData1() -> Future<Image> {</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">    return AsynchronousFuture { _ -> Image in</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">        let dataResource  = loadWebResource("dataprofile.</span><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">t<wbr class="" />xt") // dataResource and imageResource run in parallel.</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">        let imageResource = loadWebResource("imagedata.</span><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">dat<wbr class="" />")</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">        let imageTmp      = decodeImage(dataResource.get ?? Resource(path: "Default data resource or prompt user"), imageResource.get ?? Resource(path: "Default image resource or prompt user"))</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">        let imageResult   =  dewarpAndCleanupImage(</span><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">imageTm<wbr class="" />p.get ?? Image(dataPath: "Default image or prompt user", imagePath: "Default image or prompt user"))</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">        return imageResult.get ?? Image(dataPath: "Default image or prompt user", imagePath: "Default image or prompt user")</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
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<div dir="auto" class="">This also avoids the pyramid of doom; the pyramid is avoided by converting continuation-handlers into either a sync or future, i.e. it is the importer that eliminates the nesting by translating the code automatically. <br class="" /></div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">This example using Future also demonstrates three advantages of Future: they are naturally parallel (dataResource and imageResource lines run in parallel), they timeout automatically (get returns nil if the Future has taken too long), and if there is a failure (for any reason including timeout) it provides a method of either detecting the failure or providing a default (get returns nil on failure). </div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">There are a three of other advantages a Future has that this example doesn’t show: control over which thread the Future runs on, Futures can be cancelled, and debugging information is available.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">You could imagine `async` as a syntax sugar for Future, e.g. the above Future example could be:</div>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">func processImageData1() async -> Image {</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">    let dataResource  = loadWebResource("dataprofile.</span><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">t<wbr class="" />xt") // dataResource and imageResource run in parallel.</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">    let imageResource = loadWebResource("imagedata.</span><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">dat<wbr class="" />")</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">    let imageTmp      = decodeImage(dataResource.get ?? Resource(path: "Default data resource or prompt user"), imageResource.get ?? Resource(path: "Default image resource or prompt user"))</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">    let imageResult   =  dewarpAndCleanupImage(</span><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">imageTm<wbr class="" />p.get ?? Image(dataPath: "Default image or prompt user", imagePath: "Default image or prompt user"))</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
<span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">    return imageResult.get ?? Image(dataPath: "Default image or prompt user", imagePath: "Default image or prompt user")</span><br style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:monospace,monospace;word-spacing:1px" class="" />
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<div dir="auto" class="">Since an async is sugar for Future the async runs as soon as it is created (as soon as the underlying Future is created) and get returns an optional (also cancel and status would be still be present). Then if you want control over threads and timeout they could be arguments to async:</div>
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On Aug 26, 2017, 04:37 -0400, Goffredo Marocchi via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>>, wrote:<br class="" />
<blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin: 5px 5px; padding-left: 10px; border-left: thin solid #e74c3c;">With both he now built in promises in Node8 as well as libraries like Bluebird there was ample time to evaluate them and convert/auto convert at times libraries that loved callback pyramids of doom when the flow grows complex into promise based chains. Converting to Promises seems magical for the simple case, but can quickly descend in hard to follow flows and hard to debug errors when you move to non trivial multi path scenarios. JS is now solving it with their implementation of async/await, but the point is that without the full picture any single solution would break horribly in real life scenarios.<br class="" />
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On 26 Aug 2017, at 06:27, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="" />
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 August 2017 at 02:23, Joe Groff <span class=""><<a href="mailto:jgroff@apple.com" target="_blank" class="">jgroff@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="" />
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<div class="">On Aug 25, 2017, at 12:34 AM, Howard Lovatt <<a href="mailto:howard.lovatt@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">howard.lovatt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">It's not more powerful; the features are to some degree disjoint. You can build a Future abstraction and then use async/await to sugar code that threads computation through futures. Getting back to Jakob's example, someone (maybe the Clang importer, maybe Apple's framework developers in an overlay) will still need to build infrastructure on top of IBActions and other currently ad-hoc signalling mechanisms to integrate them into a more expressive coordination framework.</div>
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