A final proposal for await syntax

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At last week’s language team meeting, we discussed the await syntax again and reached a tentative consensus about a timeline for a final decision as well as a concrete proposal for what syntax we think we are most likely to accept. I describe the timeline, the syntax, and the reasoning behind this decision, in this blog post:

Here is the tl;dr, but please read the longer post if you want to understand the reasoning:

  1. We hope to stabilize async/await in the 1.37 release, which branches on July 4.
  2. We will make a final decision about the await operator syntax at the May 23 meeting.
  3. We are inclined to adopt the postfix “dot await” syntax, future.await.
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