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The MSDN library lists the await keyword as an operator. That seems strange to me – I’d have thought it was a modifier, like the async keyword.
Why is this an operator?
asyncis a modifier for a declaration. Similar topublic.awaitis an operation that consumes an asynchronous operator and does something with it. Similar toreturn.awaitisn’t modifying what is placed after it, but instead specifying how that operation is handled. In contrastasyncdoesn’t actually modify anything, it merely marks that a particular method is in the style ofasync(it is the eventualawait‘s that perform all of the changes to the methods structure from a syntatic standpoint).