Hilbish/docs/api/yarn.md

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Introduction

Yarn is a simple multithreading library. Threads are individual Lua states, so they do NOT share the same environment as the code that runs the thread.

Example:

local yarn = require 'yarn'

-- calling t will run the yarn thread.
local t = yarn.thread(print)
t 'printing from another lua state!'

Functions

thread(fun) -> @Thread	Creates a new, fresh Yarn thread.

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yarn.thread(fun) -> Thread

Creates a new, fresh Yarn thread.
fun is the function that will run in the thread.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Types

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Thread

Methods