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Basically you can programm in so called "DIRECT STYLE"
even if async I/O is involved, which might be even a
shock for functional programming language users

that are used to a lot of nonsense.

See also:

Async/Await for the Monadic Programmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH5cxLNTTPo

DIRECT STYLE SCALA Scalar Conference 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fm0y4K4YO8

Mild Shock schrieb:
> 
> Well they have suspend/resume semantics. They
> are not continuations. They aim is to provide
> async/await and not only setTimeout().
> 
> As a result you don't need to write libraries
> with a continuation parameters. This is very unlike
> nonsense such as the express web framework.
> 
> stackfulness
> In contrast to a stackless coroutine a stackful
> coroutine can be suspended from within a nested
> stackframe. Execution resumes at exactly the same
> point in the code where it was suspended before.
> 
> stackless
> With a stackless coroutine, only the top-level routine
> may be suspended. Any routine called by that top-level
> routine may not itself suspend. This prohibits
> providing suspend/resume operations in routines within
> a general-purpose library.
> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_57_0/libs/coroutine/doc/html/coroutine/intro.html#coroutine.intro.stackfulness 
> 
> 
> 
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro schrieb:
>> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:09:53 +0100, Mild Shock wrote:
>>
>>> The idea is that threads use a bouncer semaphore to get a permission to
>>> execute and thus become “coroutines”.
>>
>> But they are still stackful coroutines, not stackless.
>>
>