Hi, I'm writing this proposal based on what I've been doing with Python/Javascript. A way ppl on those communities are doing asynchronous call nowadays is by declaring an async function and if there is a need to wait for its result calls the function await. Once we have the module Task that is capable of handling mostly user cases about async/await feature on those languages. I think we can add async to the function definition to implement
defmodule Foo do async def bar(x) # code endend And on the code by calling Foo.bar/1 we return a Task. And by calling Task.async Foo.foo(1) the result can be returned. the main benefits on having an approach like that is basically code readability when it is necessary to run a single function as a separate process. today that can be done with something like that task = Task.async(fn -> Foo.bar(:arg)end)Task.await(task) or task = Task.async(Foo, :bar, [:arg])Task.await(task) Also another benefit is having a syntax more similar to other languages. This can make Elixir more welcoming for people from other communities such as python or javascript. -- Pedro Medeiros ---------------------------------- Cel: +55 (21) 9914-86898 Email: pedro...@gmail.com Beautiful is better than ugly, Explicit is better than implicit, Simple is better than complex, Complex is better than complicated. The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAJbPmJM_TAtuV5b39ZaC1gd8njtHCyk3xe2_%2BfdgfwhOcA-L7Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
