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Hi guys, I’m working with coroutine and Either and I faced a problem with the flatMap of either.
```suspend fun findLocation() = coroutineScope {
        locationDelegate.checkSettings().flatMap {
            locationDelegate.getLocation()
        }
    }```
In this sample, I can’t call `locationDelegate.getLocation()` since the `getLocation()` is a suspend function. How can I handle suspend functions in `flatMap` since it is not an inline function?

Either.flatMap can only compute a pure function since it's strict and your coroutine function is suspended. You'd need to use Either.catch or resolve the result before calling flatMap. In practice what you need instead of Either is to use IO which is the only data type that can deal with effects

Thanks for your reply. I will try to change the code to use `IO`

If you end up using IO then you don't need the scopes as IO handles error and autocancels automatically

If you need help translating a small snippets we can help showing how that looks like in IO.

Thanks but first of all I prefer to read something more about IO to under how to face it in a proper way