It doesn't seem dissimilar to Scala 2.8's delimited continuations, although with keywords rather than exotic operators (and arguably influenced by F#/Don Syme rather than Scala/Martin Odersky). Best blog entry on the topic I've seen is this one: http://tomasp.net/blog/csharp-fsharp-async-intro.aspx
Can think of a few interesting places where I'd love async/await, i.e. when doing GWT (asynchronous callback verbosity). On Nov 9, 1:11 am, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > Yet another language evolution area where Microsoft's C#/VB languages > for .NET are racing on ahead to provide a solution within the language > itself. While Java, in the meantime, hasn't even managed to catch up > with them on the closures/lambdas feature. > > new await and async keywords > > Asynchronous Programming for C# and Visual > Basichttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx > > I still like the Go language approach to async programming better, > though, than this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
