If i set Moving variable to false, will it cancel thread?

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#1

Soo i have this script, it creates thread for enemy moving in tower defense game:

local Thread = task.spawn(function()
		while self.Moving do
			local Node = self.Path[self.CurrentNode]
			local NextNode = self.Path[self.CurrentNode + 1]
			if not NextNode then
				VACC:Clear(self)
				
				return
			end
			local Time = (NextNode - Node).Magnitude / self.Speed
			
			self.Position = Node:Lerp(NextNode, self.CurrentNodeTime/Time)
			self.Part.Position = self.Position
			
			self.CurrentNodeTime += task.wait(Frequency)
			if self.CurrentNodeTime > Time then
				self.CurrentNodeTime = 0
				self.CurrentNode += 1
			end
		end
		
		return
	end)

Question is, if i call Enemy:Stop() from main script, and self.Moving will be set to false, will this thread be Garbage Collected or not?

#2

if you set self.Moving to false it will first finish it’s iteration and if you don’t have any other references to Thread it will get garbage collected

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#3

personally; i’d have 1 function that gets called each frame that updates every enemy
but i suppose yeah; if your function ends it’d probably get garbage collected aslong as you set Thread to nil

maybe just do this:

local Thread Thread = task.spawn(function()
	[...]
	Thread = nil
	return
end)
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#4

It will end iteration, also i don’t store reference due to strange GCollector bug with my maid class where i can’t cancel thread inside this thread, thx for help

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