`await null` to stay in the same tick?

[/#!/JoePea]

(Or, maybe it's Facebook Regenerator's fault, not Babel's)

On Monday, February 8, 2016, /#!/JoePea <joe at trusktr.io> wrote:

> Aah, good to know. With Babel this isn't the case, as `await null` doesn't
> defer, so I was doing `await somethingThatMightBeNull` to possibly defer,
> but `if (somethingThatMightBeNull) await somethingThatMightBeNull` will be
> full proof if Babel fixes that.
>
> On Sunday, February 7, 2016, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','erights at google.com');>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Kris Kowal <kris.kowal at cixar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Await yields to the event loop unconditionally. This is useful for
>>> spreading CPU-bound work across multiple events. You can explicitly await
>>> conditionally.
>>>
>>> ```
>>> if (guard) { await guard; }
>>> ```
>>>
>>
>> Good example, thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 1:39 PM /#!/JoePea <joe at trusktr.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure where's the best place to ask, but if I
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> await null
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> in an async function does that guarantee that the following code will
>>>> execute immediately (control flow will not go anywhere else)?
>>>>
>>>> - Joe
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>>
>> --
>>     Cheers,
>>     --MarkM
>>
>
>
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