A new coroutine is created by using the coroutine.create function
with a single argument: a function to be executed.
Returns new coroutine, an object with type thread.
co = coroutine.create(
function()
print("honk")
end
)
print(co)
print(coroutine.status(co))
thread: 0x5629ba941d58
suspended
A coroutine can be in one of three different states: suspended, running, and dead. When we create a coroutine, it starts in the suspended state.
coroutine.resume(co)
honk
print(coroutine.status(co))
dead
Unlike “real” multithreading, coroutines are non preemptive.
While a coroutine is running, it cannot be stopped from the outside.
It only suspends execution when it explicitly requests so (through a call to yield).