Why doesn't the Task.Delay method have Async suffix?
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stephentoub
Sep 29, 2021
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Because Task itself is about asynchrony and so it's deemed duplicative... effectively the "async" is built into the type, e.g. Task.Run isn't Task.RunAsync. Only when there's ambiguity, e.g. we added a synchronous Wait() method, have we used an Async suffix, e.g. WaitAsync. |
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Because Task itself is about asynchrony and so it's deemed duplicative... effectively the "async" is built into the type, e.g. Task.Run isn't Task.RunAsync. Only when there's ambiguity, e.g. we added a synchronous Wait() method, have we used an Async suffix, e.g. WaitAsync.