A continuation of the getting started with corouti...

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[Dan Newton]

A continuation of the getting started with coroutines series i have been writing - https://lankydan.dev/cancelling-coroutines

[Stephan Schroeder]

pretty sure it should be false here:

Cancelling a coroutine will change a job's isActive flag to true.

[Dan Newton]

ah indeed, thx for pointing that out

[Stephan Schroeder]

this is nitpicking but instead of if-blocking the whole

for (it in 0..1000) {
      if (isActive) {
        Thread.sleep(50)
        println("I am still going..")
      }
    }

i'd suggest to just break the loop

for (it in 0..1000) {
      if (!isActive) break
      Thread.sleep(50)
      println("I am still going..")
    }

it saves on line, doesn't iterate over the rest of all numbers once the coroutine is canceled and doesn't indent the rest of the statement.

[Stephan Schroeder]

ah, ok. you kind of do that with your next return-way of canceling 😅

[Dan Newton]

I was literally just about to mention that

[Dan Newton]

maybe it suggests that the for loop one should be removed as an example

[Dan Newton]

thx for your feedback 👍

[Stephan Schroeder]

thx for your blog post! Canceling coroutines was literally the next item on my todo-list after finishing the Coroutines Hands-on course (which tells you about cancel, but not about it's cooperative nature).