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what's the best way to emit the results of one flow into another? For example i am using a bluetooth library that has states for `Connected` and `Disconnected` as a `StateFlow` . I am trying to add more states such as `Connecting` or `LookingForSavedDevice` at a higher level in my program so I would like to use a `StateFlow` which both takes in emissions from the library functions as well as allow me to mutate the `StateFlow` myself.

So I think I'm looking for a way to collect into another flow:
`bluetoothLibrary.stateFlow.collect(myOtherStateFlow)`

I'm aware I can just emit into the new flow in a `collect { }` block or `onEach { }` but I'm not sure what is canonical

```myOtherStateFlow.emitAll(bluetoothLibrary.stateFlow)```
is equivalent to
```bluetoothLibrary.stateFlow.collect { myOtherStateFlow.emit(it) }```
but is that really what you want? in most cases I'd consider
```val myFlow = merge(
    bluetoothLibrary.stateFlow,
    myOtherStateFlow,
)```
to be better than having multiple mutators of a single MutableStateFlow

I agree that might be cleaner to just use a `merge` . I'll have to check if that still returns a `StateFlow`  or just a `Flow` at that point but otherwise that's a great idea. Thank you