> That said, I think a postfixing sigil would he been much better. It seems an important enough thing to denote that a bit of special syntax is called for
They can still introduce a sigil later, if the .await syntax turns out to be common enough in code that the long keyword hinders readability. This is how it was done with the try!(...) feature, which now uses ? as a sigil. But as the article points out, pure sigils are a scarce resource so .await might well be the best way to go anyway.
They can still introduce a sigil later, if the .await syntax turns out to be common enough in code that the long keyword hinders readability. This is how it was done with the try!(...) feature, which now uses ? as a sigil. But as the article points out, pure sigils are a scarce resource so .await might well be the best way to go anyway.