PEP 492: isn't the "await" redundant?

[Gregory Ewing]

Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> How about making *every* function *always* and async, unconditionally?
> That way *every* function would be an async and every function call
> would be an await.

1. Many people regard it as a feature that you can see where
potential suspension points are.

2. Doing this would require massive changes to the core
interpreter and all C extensions. (The original version of
Stackless Python did something similar, and it was judged
far too big a change to incorporate into CPython.)

-- 
Greg