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| **Special notes about `t:resume`, `t:suspend`** | **Special notes about `t:resume`, `t:suspend`** | ||
| - | Do not think of these methods as `coroutine.resume()` nor `coroutine.yield()`. These methods are indirect and a thread will asynchronously start or stop running on its own. Contrast this to coroutine methods which directly and immediately invoke execution or leave execution of a coroutine. Consider this example: | + | Do not think of these methods as `coroutine.resume()` nor `coroutine.yield()`. These methods are indirect and a thread will asynchronously start or stop running on its own. Contrast this to coroutine methods which directly and immediately invoke execution or leave execution of a coroutine. Consider these examples: |
| ```lua | ```lua | ||
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| t = thread.create(function() | t = thread.create(function() | ||
| print("start") | print("start") | ||
| - | t:suspend() | + | thread.current():suspend() |
| print("after suspend") | print("after suspend") | ||
| os.sleep() | os.sleep() | ||
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| ``` | ``` | ||
| start | start | ||
| + | ``` | ||
| + | |||
| + | ```lua | ||
| + | local thread = require("thread") | ||
| + | local t -- this example needs an upvalue to t | ||
| + | t = thread.create(function() | ||
| + | print("start") | ||
| + | thread.current():suspend() | ||
| + | print("after suspend") | ||
| + | os.sleep() | ||
| + | print("after sleep") | ||
| + | end) | ||
| + | print("outside thread create") | ||
| + | t:resume() | ||
| + | print("after resume") | ||
| + | ``` | ||
| + | |||
| + | Output: | ||
| + | ``` | ||
| + | start | ||
| + | outside thread create | ||
| + | after suspend | ||
| + | after resume | ||
| + | after sleep | ||
| ``` | ``` | ||