Documentation for the Lua coroutine standard library.
From Lua 5.1 Reference Manual by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes.
Copyright © 2006-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.
Freely available under the terms of the Lua license.
creates a new coroutine thread
Creates a new coroutine, with body f.
f must be a Lua function.
Returns this new coroutine,
an object with type "thread".
f -
start or resume a thread
Starts or continues the execution of coroutine co. The first time you resume a coroutine, it starts running its body. The values val1, ... are passed as the arguments to the body function. If the coroutine has yielded, resume restarts it; the values val1, ... are passed as the results from the yield.
If the coroutine runs without any errors, resume returns true plus any values passed to yield (if the coroutine yields) or any values returned by the body function (if the coroutine terminates). If there is any error, resume returns false plus the error message.
co -
[val1] -
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returns the running coroutine
Returns the running coroutine, or nil when called by the main thread.
returns the status of a thread
Returns the status of coroutine co, as a string:
"running",
if the coroutine is running (that is, it called status);
"suspended", if the coroutine is suspended in a call to yield,
or if it has not started running yet;
"normal" if the coroutine is active but not running
(that is, it has resumed another coroutine);
and "dead" if the coroutine has finished its body function,
or if it has stopped with an error.
co -
creates a thread and returns a function to resume it
Creates a new coroutine, with body f. f must be a Lua function. Returns a function that resumes the coroutine each time it is called. Any arguments passed to the function behave as the extra arguments to resume. Returns the same values returned by resume, except the first boolean. In case of error, propagates the error.
f -
yields execution of thread back to the caller
Suspends the execution of the calling coroutine. The coroutine cannot be running a C function, a metamethod, or an iterator. Any arguments to yield are passed as extra results to resume.
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