Hi Chris, I love what I’ve read so far. I just have one curiosity from my cursory look over the proposal.
It seems that in transitioning API to an Async Await system, the completion handler’s type becomes the return type. How would you handle bridging in Foundation API that already has a return type, eg URLSession returns you data tasks, and then fires a completion handler. Perhaps I missed something. I’m sure you could always form a tuple as well, just curious the thoughts on that. Thanks, Rod > On 18 Aug 2017, at 8:25 am, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Aug 17, 2017, at 3:24 PM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> As Ted mentioned in his email, it is great to finally kick off discussions >> for what concurrency should look like in Swift. This will surely be an epic >> multi-year journey, but it is more important to find the right design than >> to get there fast. >> >> I’ve been advocating for a specific model involving async/await and actors >> for many years now. Handwaving only goes so far, so some folks asked me to >> write them down to make the discussion more helpful and concrete. While I >> hope these ideas help push the discussion on concurrency forward, this isn’t >> in any way meant to cut off other directions: in fact I hope it helps give >> proponents of other designs a model to follow: a discussion giving extensive >> rationale, combined with the long term story arc to show that the features >> fit together. >> >> Anyway, here is the document, I hope it is useful, and I’d love to hear >> comments and suggestions for improvement: >> https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9f782 > > Oh, also, one relatively short term piece of this model is a proposal for > adding an async/await model to Swift (in the form of general coroutine > support). Joe Groff and I wrote up a proposal for this, here: > https://gist.github.com/lattner/429b9070918248274f25b714dcfc7619 > > and I have a PR with the first half of the implementation here: > https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/11501 > > The piece that is missing is code generation support. > > -Chris > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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