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jayd16yesterday at 10:13 PM1 replyview on HN

you mean like?

   await Join(f1(), f2())
Although more realistically

   Promise1 = f1(); Promise2 = f2();
   await Join(Promise1, Promise2);
But also, futures are the expression of lazy values so I'm not sure what else you'd be asking for.

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raluktoday at 5:32 AM

This is what i hand in mind whit "manually handing of futures". In this case you have to write

   Promise1 = f1(); Promise2 = f2();
   v1,v2 = await Join(Promise1, Promise2);
   return v1 + v2
I think this is just too much of synthactic noise.

On the other hand, it is necessary becase some of underlying async calls can be order dependend.

for example

    await sock.rec(1) == 'A' && await sock.rec(1) == 'B'
checks that first received socket byte is A and second is B. This is clearly order dependant that can't be executed concurrently out of order.
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