Messing around with coroutines for first time. Is ...

# coroutines

[hohnjogan]

Messing around with coroutines for first time. Is there a better way to implement a timer that executes a block of code every x millis? I was hoping to avoid recreating the job every time but it seems that you cannot "pause" a coroutines and start it again. Thanks in advance.

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[nil2l]

if (!isPaused) block() ?

[ghedeon]

Ticker-channel maybe, if you feel adventurous https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/channels.html#ticker-channels

[bj0]

I don't see what's wrong with launching a new coroutine when you restart, they are lightweight

[dave08]

If block is not block: suspend () -> Unit what's the point of the launch? You're not suspending at all...

[gotoOla]

are you doing this for the learning experience or is there any reason why you don’t want to use the fixedRateTimer-extension? https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.concurrent/fixed-rate-timer.html