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Hi all, I have a question / use case for racing: I want to get a (hopefully) non-null result and have some ways to get it, how do I combine racing with each of my function calls returning null if the result can not be obtained / found in that function? So I would like to have the first non-null result of these functions and once one returns non-null, cancel the rest

```fun <T> race(vararg tasks: suspend () -> T) = channelFlow {
  for (task in tasks) launch { send(task()) }
}

race(task1, task2).filterNotNull().first()```

That does not cancel other tasks after the fastest one succeeds

In fact, it does, because `first()` is a terminal operator that will end the flow. The channel flow has its own coroutine scope which is cancelled when the flow terminates.

Ah right, there was something weird in my test, now it works, thanks!