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Building sequences

As I mentioned earlier, Kotlin coroutines are something more than threads in Java and async/await in C#. Here is a feature that, after learning, you will be pissed that it was not there while you were learning to code. To add icing on the cake, this feature is application level, it is even shipped with kotlin-stdlib, so you can use it right there without doing anything or even using coroutines explicitly.

Before learning what I am talking about, let's do some old school code, say the fibonacci series? Consider the following piece of code as an example:

    fun main(args: Array<String>) { 
      var a = 0 
      var b = 1 
      print("$a, ") 
      print("$b, ") 
 
      for(i in 2..9) { 
        val c = a+b 
        print("$c, ") 
        a=b 
        b=c 
      } 
    } 

So, this is the old-school fibonacci series program in Kotlin. This code becomes more problematic when you plan to take the user input for how many numbers to print. What if I say Kotlin has a buildSequence function that can do this task for you, that too pretty naturally and in a simpler way? So, let's modify the code now:

    fun main(args: Array<String>) { 
      val fibonacciSeries = buildSequence {//(1) 
        var a = 0 
        var b = 1 
        yield(a)//(2) 
        yield(b) 
 
        while (true) { 
            val c = a+b 
            yield(c)//(3) 
            a=b 
            b=c 
        } 
     } 
 
     println(fibonacciSeries.take(10) join "," )//(4) 
 
    } 

The following is the output for both the programs:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 

Now, let's understand the program. On comment (1), we declare val fibonacciSeries to be filled up by the buildSequence block. Whenever we have computed some value to output to the sequence/series, we will yield that value (in comment 2 and 3). On comment 4, we call fibonacciSeries to compute up to the 10th variable and join elements of the sequence with a comma (,).

So, you learned coroutine; now, let's implement it into our program.

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