Is it possible to create a non-suspendable function with an overloaded suspendable version? I was thinking about something like that:

fun runBlock(block: () -> Unit) = block()
suspend fun runBlock(block: suspend () -> Unit) = block()

runBlock { println("hello") }
^ COMPILE ERROR: Suspend function 'runBlock' should be called only from a coroutine or another suspend function

runBlock(suspend { println("hello") })
^ COMPILE ERROR: Suspend function 'runBlock' should be called only from a coroutine or another suspend function

Or should I create two functions,

runBlock

and

runSuspendableBlock

? (sorry, I post quite often lately 😓 )

If

runBlock

was

inline

it would work. But in the general case, no, a

suspend

function can’t overload or override a non-suspending function 😞

I did try to inline it but it seems like its not possible with a suspendable lambda as a parameter?

Yeah, the inline trick only works if you actually call it with an inlined lambda

I see, thank you, I will create 2 functions then 😛