Describe how start works in the context of async #443
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This PR fills in a TODO section in Async.md about what happens if an
async
-lifted function is used as astart
function. It's pretty short, because it mostly just falls out from how async already works (but let me know if I'm forgetting to cover something).To summarize, the idea is that
start
acts like a synchronous call, waiting until theasync
calleetask.return
s its value before continuing instantiation. But sinceasync
functions can keep running aftertask.return
, so can thesestart
-created tasks, "in the background". This appears to be quite useful as a solution for how language toolchains can support "background task"-type use cases without throwing out structured concurrency or the async call tree.