On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Alex Russell <slightly...@google.com>wrote:
> I didn't imply they were. But addressing the pain point of asynchronous > code that's hard to use doesn't imply that the only answer is a synchronous > version. > The asynchronous programming model is often inherently inconvenient compared to synchronous code, and synchronous APIs (whether at the individual API level, or at another level such as synchronous messaging or yieldable coroutines) are indeed the only practical solution that's been proposed so far. I believe this is a fundamental issue, but if you have a concrete alternative proposal to make then by all means do so (in another thread). Otherwise, this just isn't helpful. This is not a particularly hard or subtle point. > (Let's try to remain civil.) -- Glenn Maynard