June 29, 2015
12:57 p.m.
On 29 June 2015 at 09:32, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
What we *don't* have are consumption functions that have an implied "async for" inside them - functions like sum(), any(), all(), etc are all synchronous drivers.
Note that this requirement to duplicate big chunks of functionality in sync and async forms is a fundamental aspect of the design. It's not easy to swallow (hence the fact that threads like this keep coming up) as it seems to badly violate DRY principles, but it is deliberate. There are a number of blog posts that discuss this "two separate worlds" approach, some positive, some negative. Links have been posted recently in one of these threads, but I'm afraid I don't have them to hand right now. Paul