async/await in F#
bearophile via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 14 00:53:15 PDT 2014
In this post:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/l62466$2n8p$1@digitalmars.com
Walter said, in November:
> I agree that async/await has to eventually be added to D. I'm
> not
> convinced it can or should be done with AST macros.
But this blog post shows why the rigid features of C# are not
always the best and the Computation Expressions of F# give more
flexibility:
https://mrange.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/why-i-wish-c-never-got-asyncawait/
More info on the Computation Expressions of F# (found at the top
of a Google search, but also found to be the best references on
this topic):
tomasp.net/academic/papers/computation-zoo/computation-zoo.pdf
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233182.aspx
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Computation_Expressions
http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/computation-expressions.html
Bye,
bearophile
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