Async keyword is not part of the public API #26
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Closes #19
The async keyword should not be part of the public API at all.
The async keyword is an implementation detail since it is just syntactic sugar. From an API perspective the following APIs are equivalent:
async void
vs.void
async Task
vsTask
async Task<T>
vsTask<T>
From a behavior perspective you could argue that the runtime behavior from
void
toasync void
can change and therefore it could be a breaking change but from an API perspective both APIs are binary compatible. Since API approver's concern is only the public API theasync
keyword should be omitted.