> I don't think skipping "async" this would be a big deal for anything,
> as the cases where the new behaviour may actually lead to significant
> differences should be rare.
After pondering this for a while I am a bit afraid that skipping async
completely might lead to quite hard to debug problems
A while ago we've been discussing adding a new "async" keyword to run
certain functions asynchronously; Bro would proceed with other script
code until they complete. Summary is here:
https://www.bro.org/development/projects/broker-lang-ext.html#asynchronous-executions-without-when
After my origin
