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		Georgelemental on Nov 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A four year plan for async Rust `.await` being postfix makes it easy to chain with further method calls (eg `foo().await.bar().await`). `yield expr` returns `()`, so there is no use in chaining it.

laerus on Nov 7, 2023 [–]

Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of Python's yield were it evaluates to what is .send() back in the generator.

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