@withoutclass Always use

consume

or

consumeEach

. BTW, this is getting me wondering if

for

loop on a channel without

consumption

should raise a warning…

what about in an actor?

I always use

consumeEach

, even in `actor`s, except when I need to use

continue

or

break

(but I still use

consume

). A channel may need to be closed to not leak resources. It's possible `actor`s don't need consumption of the internal

ReceiveChannel

though. Can anyone confirm?

i was talking about the internal channel, since you close it from outside, and you typically loop on it until it's closed so

consume

is probably redundant

Yes, that's what I understood, and I think you're right about this case (which may be reproduced in some cases)

i have parsing code that uses

for

without

consume

, though it has no way to break out of the

for

except an external close, so that would be the same case I guess