2 replies

async await in loops

I have this code, but I don't understand why this all gets printed right after each other, where I would expect that the

rl.question

rl.question

call gives me a prompt in terminal which waits for input. useful information is that before this piece is run, there is another part that also uses the

rl.question

rl.question

where it actually waits for that user input in the terminal (and then uses that as expected in the callback)

for (let round = 1; round <= this.GAME_ROUNDS; round++) {
  for (let player of this.players) {
    this.startTurn();
    console.log(`starting turn for player in round ${round}`);
    console.log("" + player);
            
    rl.question("What do you want to do now? (F) Forge / (H) Heroic feat", 
                    (answer) => {console.log(`excellent choice that ${answer}, but this isn't implemented yet`)});
    }
  }

for (let round = 1; round <= this.GAME_ROUNDS; round++) {
  for (let player of this.players) {
    this.startTurn();
    console.log(`starting turn for player in round ${round}`);
    console.log("" + player);
            
    rl.question("What do you want to do now? (F) Forge / (H) Heroic feat", 
                    (answer) => {console.log(`excellent choice that ${answer}, but this isn't implemented yet`)});
    }
  }

KP-C

Kevin Powell - Community•4y ago•

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denertog

async await in loops

I have this code, but I don't understand why this all gets printed right after each other, where I would expect that the

rl.question

rl.question

call gives me a prompt in terminal which waits for input. useful information is that before this piece is run, there is another part that also uses the

rl.question

rl.question

where it actually waits for that user input in the terminal (and then uses that as expected in the callback)

for (let round = 1; round <= this.GAME_ROUNDS; round++) {
  for (let player of this.players) {
    this.startTurn();
    console.log(`starting turn for player in round ${round}`);
    console.log("" + player);
            
    rl.question("What do you want to do now? (F) Forge / (H) Heroic feat", 
                    (answer) => {console.log(`excellent choice that ${answer}, but this isn't implemented yet`)});
    }
  }

for (let round = 1; round <= this.GAME_ROUNDS; round++) {
  for (let player of this.players) {
    this.startTurn();
    console.log(`starting turn for player in round ${round}`);
    console.log("" + player);
            
    rl.question("What do you want to do now? (F) Forge / (H) Heroic feat", 
                    (answer) => {console.log(`excellent choice that ${answer}, but this isn't implemented yet`)});
    }
  }

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