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Re:Asynchrony Is Not Concurrency by xscott on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:28PM (#44610969)
> "under what operation?"

You could treat the semicolon as an operator, and just like multiplication over matrices, it's only commutative for a subset of the general type.

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Re:Asynchrony Is Not Concurrency by ryandv on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:29PM (#44610980)
Right, exactly. It's been said that (>>=) is a programmable semicolon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21715426

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Re:Asynchrony Is Not Concurrency by singularity2001 on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:24PM (#44612012)
or carrots return/new line For that matter
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