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'''Available since:''' Gideros 2011.6<br/>
 
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'''Class:''' [[coroutine]]<br/>
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=== Description ===
 
=== Description ===
In order for multiple coroutines to share execution they must stop executing (after performing a sensible amount of processing) and pass control to another thread. This act of submission is called yielding. Coroutines explicitly call a Lua function coroutine.yield(), which is similar to using return in functions. What differentiates yielding from function returns is that at a later point we can reenter the thread and carry on where we left off. When you exit a function scope using return the scope is destroyed and we cannot reenter it, e.g.,
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Suspends execution of the coroutine.
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= coroutine.yield(val1...,)
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(any) = coroutine.yield(...)
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'''val1:''' (any) value to return from coroutine.resume call '''optional'''<br/>
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'''...:''' (multiple) other optional values that will be returned from coroutine.resume call '''optional'''<br/>
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'''In order for multiple coroutines to share execution they must stop executing (after performing a sensible amount of processing) and pass control to another thread. This act of submission is called yielding. Coroutines explicitly call a Lua function coroutine.yield(), which is similar to using return in functions. What differentiates yielding from function returns is that at a later point we can reenter the thread and carry on where we left off. When you exit a function scope using return the scope is destroyed and we cannot reenter it'''
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'''Any arguments to yield are passed as extra results to resume. Yielding a coroutine inside metamethods or C functions is prohibited, with the exception of pcall and xpcall'''
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=== Parameters ===
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'''...''': (any) values to return from coroutine.resume call '''optional'''<br/>
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=== Return values ===
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'''Returns''' (any) values to return if any<br/>
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{{Coroutine}}

Latest revision as of 15:27, 13 July 2023

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: coroutine

Description

Suspends execution of the coroutine.

(any) = coroutine.yield(...)
In order for multiple coroutines to share execution they must stop executing (after performing a sensible amount of processing) and pass control to another thread. This act of submission is called yielding. Coroutines explicitly call a Lua function coroutine.yield(), which is similar to using return in functions. What differentiates yielding from function returns is that at a later point we can reenter the thread and carry on where we left off. When you exit a function scope using return the scope is destroyed and we cannot reenter it
Any arguments to yield are passed as extra results to resume. Yielding a coroutine inside metamethods or C functions is prohibited, with the exception of pcall and xpcall

Parameters

...: (any) values to return from coroutine.resume call optional

Return values

Returns (any) values to return if any