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by rogerbinns 4943 days ago
This completely misses the point! I am talking about what the API does which is what you are using. Whether it internally makes one over the wire call or 10 is irrelevant. With the parameter set one way, the API does not return until the server has completed the operation, and the other way the operation could still be in progress or could have errored - you have to explicitly ask.

My contention is that "safe" is a bad name for the parameter, and "async" is far better suited as it describes the semantics of the API.