pausables {async}

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Pausable functions.

Description

Coroutines rely on "pausable" workalikes for control flow functions like if, while, and so on. pausables() scans for and returns a list of all pausable functions visible from the present environment.

Usage

pausables(envir = caller(), packages = NULL)

Arguments

envir	The environment to search (defaulting to the calling environment).
packages	By default, will only look for pausable functions visible from the caller's environment. packages argument additionally specifies aditional packages to search. packages=base::.packages() will search all currently loaded packages. ⁠[.packages(all.available=TRUE)]⁠ will search all installped package.

Details

A pausable function is a public function that has a corresponding private function with a name endng with ⁠_cps⁠. Most of these private functions are defined in async source file cps.r. For instance, async:::for_cps contains the pausable implementation of for.

Value

A list of expressions (either names or ::: calls)

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