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This package provides a higher-level interface over threads, in which an
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Async a is a concurrent thread that will eventually deliver a value of
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type a. The package provides ways to create Async computations, wait for
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their results, and cancel them.
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Using Async is safer than using threads in two ways:
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- When waiting for a thread to return a result, if the thread dies with
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an exception then the caller must either re-throw the exception (wait)
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or handle it (waitCatch); the exception cannot be ignored.
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- The API makes it possible to build a tree of threads that are
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automatically killed when their parent dies (see withAsync).
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WWW: https://github.com/simonmar/async
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