Re: continuation passing in Emacs vs. JUST-THIS-ONE

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Sun 16 Apr 2023 at 23:46, Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to me what one would really like is for primitives that might
> block to just return a future that's treated like any other value,
> except that "futurep" would return true and primitive operations would
> implicitly wait on the futures in their arguments.

Which programming language uses implicit await?

Sounds like a bad idea.

How would the language distinguish if the future should be awaited or
simply passed around?  E.g. should (push future list) await the future
and push the value or push the future without awaiting?