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[Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 06:30:14PM -0700, Justin Santa Barbara wrote:
> I feel like Nova is greatly complicated by the async code, and I'm
> starting to see some of the pain of Twisted: it seems that
> _everything_ needs to be async in the long run, because if something
> calls a function that is (or could be) async, it must itself be async.
> So yields and @defer.inlineCallbacks start cropping up everywhere.

Just to be clear: defer.inlineCallbacks (and thus yields) are by no
means required to deal with deferreds. Before Nova, I had never used it.

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Soren Hansen
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