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Remove the async keyword from WIT.md. #98

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion design/high-level/UseCases.md
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Expand Up @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ use cases that require additional features:
can encapsulate `i32` pointers to linear memory allocations that need to be
safely freed when the last handle goes away.
3. Developers import or export functions with signatures containing
concurrency-oriented types (e.g., async, future and stream) to address
concurrency-oriented types (e.g., future and stream) to address
concurrency use cases like non-blocking I/O, early return and streaming. Both
developers (the caller and callee) are able to use their respective languages'
native concurrency support, if it exists, using the concurrency-oriented types
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9 changes: 3 additions & 6 deletions design/mvp/WIT.md
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Expand Up @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ keyword ::= 'use'
| 'static'
| 'interface'
| 'tuple'
| 'async'
| 'future'
| 'stream'
```
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -336,19 +335,17 @@ union-cases ::= ty,
## Item: `func`

Functions can also be defined in a `wit` document. Functions have a name,
parameters, and results. Functions can optionally also be declared as `async`
functions.
parameters, and results.

```wit
thunk: func() -> ()
fibonacci: func(n: u32) -> u32
sleep: async func(ms: u64) -> ()
```

Specifically functions have the structure:

```wit
func-item ::= id ':' 'async'? 'func' func-vec '->' func-vec
func-item ::= id ':' 'func' func-vec '->' func-vec

func-vec ::= ty
| '(' func-named-type-list ')'
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -377,7 +374,7 @@ resource file-descriptor
resource request {
static new: func() -> request

body: async func() -> list<u8>
body: func() -> future<list<u8>>
headers: func() -> list<string>
}
```
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