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Re:Async Ruby by bradgessler on Saturday October 30, 2021 @05:12PM (#29052333)
What is “colorless” suppose to mean? This is the first time I’ve seen it used.
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Re:Async Ruby by justsomeuser on Saturday October 30, 2021 @08:56PM (#29053583)
It references the function return type:

Colored = Promise<T>

Colorless = T

In "colorless" async/await, async functions are implicit (no async keyword), and when called, the compiler auto-unwraps the promise, so everything looks like "sync" code but any function stack could "save and resume" at an "async point".

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Re:Async Ruby by bradgessler on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:00PM (#29165898)
Too bad the Zeitgeist didn't land on "Typed" vs "Untyped".
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Re:Async Ruby by vmarquet on Saturday October 30, 2021 @05:29PM (#29052427)
I think it's a reference to this blog post https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
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Re:Async Ruby by auno on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:11AM (#29056152)
Which in turn is making a reference to an even older post at https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23.
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Re:Async Ruby by jsnell on Saturday October 30, 2021 @05:29PM (#29052428)
Context: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
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