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• jhanschoo 7y ago
  Nothing. It's just that you can have const result = await someFetchOrSomething(str); return result.foo; while not inside an async function. You still can't use it in a non-async function.
  • efdee 7y ago
    You can't return when you're not in a function ;-)
• efdee 7y ago
  Nothing would change here. Normally, await can only appear in a method that has been marked as async. However, when you write toplevel code (code that's not wrapped in a function), you can't mark the function as async (because there is no function) so you can't use await. Enabling toplevel await fixes that.