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Hamza
05/27/2018, 2:46 AMone more question, how do I make a function that returns nothing without throwing an Exception?
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Allan Wang
05/27/2018, 6:47 AMNothing indicates that it essentially halts the program. You can throw an exception or call system exit. I believe there is a kotlin function called exit that returns nothing, doing exactly that
If you are referring to Java's void, then return unit (you don't have to specify that in the method header)
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Hamza
05/27/2018, 6:55 AMi want the formet. to exit. but i don’t want the program to exit. i just want to simulate an exception without throwing an exception (so only that thread stops). so like if im making a discord bot, it stops the program there, not everywehre
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karelpeeters
05/27/2018, 7:27 AMIf you throw an exception and no one catches it only that thread stops.
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oleksiyp
05/27/2018, 1:49 PMOk so, just as an idea you can suspend execution and never resume it i.e. try to apply coroutines
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Allan Wang
05/27/2018, 3:48 PMIf you want, you can also use boolean returns to propagate responses. As in return true to continue, false otherwise etc
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Hamza
05/27/2018, 11:38 PMAlan thanks for the great idea!
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