So are you saying that `return promise` and `return await promise` should
have identical behavior in the context of an async function?

Wouldn't that be a breaking change? And isn't it trivially solvable with a
linter rule?

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018, 13:29 Isiah Meadows <isiahmead...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know this requires a bit of an exception, but I feel
> `catch`/`finally` should trigger when a promise `return`ed from an
> `async` function rejects. It just seems incredibly odd not to, since
> the usual intuition is that if an error occurs during the execution of
> a function, it's catchable by the parent via `try`/`catch`, even if
> it's a simple `return foo(...args)`. You see that a lot with the
> `return await foo(...args)` step necessary within `try`/`catch` blocks
> in async functions, but that's literally the only time that idiom is
> necessary - it's otherwise generally equivalent to `return
> foo(...args)` mod timings, including when returning directly outside
> them.
>
> Could you all in TC39 fix this to work a little more intuitively?
>
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