async

Removed. Generator functions are spelled gen fn; async fn is a parse error that names gen fn. Coil has no async / await; concurrency uses the task module and threads.

See also#

• task
• fn: Declares a function, a method, or (written in an expression) an anonymous function.
• let: Declares a mutable local variable.
• const: Declares a binding that cannot be reassigned: a local, a module constant, or a class field that is set only by new.
• static: Declares a module-level or class-level slot shared by the whole program, or a method without self.
• readonly: A read-only view of a value: nothing reachable through it can be changed.
• if: Runs a block when a bool condition is true.
• else: Introduces the branch of an if that runs when its condition is false (or its pattern does not match).