On the proliferation of try (and, soon, await)

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I’m increasingly of the opinion that async let should behave the way I at first assumed it did work, which is that it only works with async expressions and doesn’t change at all how the called functions are run. I asked on the other thread about how a few different examples would run, but I haven’t gotten an answer. I feel like if these two calls work differently then that’s too subtle:

 // func g() async

// 3
await g()

// 4
async let task = g()
await task

IMO those should do the exact same thing. If they don’t then like Chris said there should be a different keyword use to make that clearer, and then there should be a way to split the await from the call site without changing behavior.

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