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		zozbot234 on June 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rust I wanted had no future Do you really need effect handlers as a separate feature once you have async/await? It seems like you could easily encode one with the other.

hayley-patton on June 5, 2023 [–]

An effect handler is allowed to invoke a continuation multiple times; I believe this is not possible with async/await.

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