async/await in F#

Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 14 19:02:14 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 07:53:17 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> 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


Can't we use Fibers to get something similar?


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