Hi everyone, I have a question about the documenta...
# coroutinesp
Pim
02/12/2025, 9:22 AMHi everyone, I have a question about the documentation on `suspendCancellableCoroutine`:
The documentation states: “This function throws a CancellationException if the Job of the coroutine is cancelled or completed while it is suspended.”
Could you explain me how it’s possible to complete the Job while it’s suspended?
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Sam
02/12/2025, 9:46 AM🤔 sounds to me like it should be impossible. A coroutine's job only completes when its code finishes running. If the code's suspended, then by definition it's not finished. Perhaps that wording in the documentation is outdated, or just imprecise...
Sam
02/12/2025, 9:47 AM(a coroutine can certainly be cancelled while it's suspended, but I don't think that's the part you were querying)
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Pim
02/12/2025, 10:11 AMThat’s indeed what I thought too. But I’m a little new to coroutines, that’s why I was not sure 🤔
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ephemient
02/12/2025, 10:12 AMcancellation is only observed at cancellation points
ephemient
02/12/2025, 10:16 AMhmm. actually rereading I'm not sure what the documentation is aiming to describe either
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streetsofboston
02/12/2025, 12:53 PMVery odd wording indeed. Unlike cancellation, a coroutine "completes" itself, not "_is_ completed" by something else....
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kevin.cianfarini
02/12/2025, 1:17 PMThe only case I can possibly think about is
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