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Do you want to just stop collecting from the flow, or stop the flow from collecting upstream (e.g. with `shareIn`)?

there are various operators that let you define how long to collect, but you can also cancel the collecting coroutine

That makes sense. So I would do something like create a new job, and cancel that job

with `launch`, yea that would work, if that fits your use case

But if I try doing something like
```val job = launch {
            cachedPosition.collect {
                if (cachedPosition != position) {
                    job.cancel()
                }
            }
        }```
it doesn't work, because job isn't defined yet

So I'm putting the job in a instance variable, which feels hacky

just use `cancel()`, it's available on `CoroutineScope` (which `launch` provides)