How to use spawn() without a function

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#1

Hello roblox!
I want to use spawn() without a function so, i could use return from spawn() to parent function
Here is what i want to do:

function foo()
	spawn(
		wait(1)
		return("will prevent function foo() running")
	)
	wait(2)
    --needs to be not ran
	print("i ran")
end
foo()

This would be a great feature to stop a function

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#2 
task.spawn(function()
	--your code here
end)
#3

Unfortunately this won’t work given the nature of how threading in Roblox is handled.

An alternative solution is to set a flag (boolean variable) to true if you want your function to stop executing.

function foo()
wait(2)
if stopExecutionFlag then return end --//set elsewhere
print'yay'
end
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#4

That’s bad, but thanks for telling me then.

#5

You should also know that spawn is going to be deprecated soon, and you should switch to task.spawn() or coroutines for "parallel"ising code.