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▲ malakai521 2 days ago

The syntax is exactly the same. You have `var x = await` in C# and `let! x =` in F#

The controller handler is also the same. It will be marked with `async` keyword in C# and `task` CE in F#

▲shortrounddev2 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's absolutely not exactly the same; let! is only available within a computation block. If you want to return some value from the computation block and return to Functional land without having to pause the thread you need to use a continuation, which C# has built in syntactic sugar for in async/await and F# does not.

▲sparkie 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

`await` can only be used in an `async` function. How is that so different from `let!` only being available in a computation expression?

▲shortrounddev2 2 days ago | parent [-]

because an async function doesn't require you to change syntaxes to get them to work

▲Smaug123 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's actually sort of the other way round. C# has hardcoded syntax for async/await. F#'s syntax for async/await is a fully-general user-accessible mechanism.

▲sparkie 2 days ago | parent [-]

They're not so different in that regard. C# `await` can be adapted by making an awaitable and awaiter type[1], which isn't to dissimilar to how a computation expression in F# needs to implement methods `Bind`, `Return`, `Yield`, etc.

In both languages these patterns make up for the absence of typeclasses to express things like a functor, applicative, monad, comonad, etc.

[1]https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-334_7...

▲xigoi 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A computation block is the equivatent of an async function;