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# compose

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[Albert Chang]

Agreed. The fact that you must specify an initial value when calling collectAsState() on a Flow also brings out this problem.

[streetsofboston]

Since both sources of the combine are StateFlows, the resulting combine always has some current value.

Would this not work?

suspend fun doSomethingScary1() {
   if (!canDoSomethingScary.first()) return
   // do something scary
}

instead of using stateIn?

[Colton Idle]

🤦

[Kirill Vasilenko]

@streetsofboston, yes, you can, but it will still be suspended that is extra here.

[streetsofboston]

True, I though that'd be fine, since the calling function doSomethingScary1 is suspend as well.

[Kirill Vasilenko]

I will remove this post and you can ask your questions in #coroutines channel or, that is better, on GitHub.