Nathaniel Smith wrote:
It wasn't that we created these keywords to solve some implementation problem and then inflicted them on users.
I disagree -- looking at the history of how we ended up with async/await, it looks to me like this is exactly what *did* happen. First we had generators. Then 'yield from' was invented to (among other things) leverage them as a way of getting lightweight threads. Then 'await' was introduced as a nicer way to spell 'yield from' when using it for that purpose. Saying that 'await' is good for you because it makes the suspension points visible seems to me a rationalisation after the fact. It was something that emerged from the implementation, not a prior design requirement. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
