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Re:Async-await on stable Rust by thayne on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:01PM (#21476763)
> An alternative design would have kept await, but supported async not as a function-modifier, but as an expression modifier.

How is that different than an `async` block?

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Re:Async-await on stable Rust by brandonbloom on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:46PM (#21496278)
It's not. I didn't realize Rust had that, but the rest of my comment still applies: it would be nice if asynchrony was transparent to intermediate functions and compiled via specialization.
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