Task -- the class of all tasks

Functions and methods returning a task:

• createTask(Function) -- see createTask -- create a task
• createTask(Function,Thing) -- see createTask -- create a task
• schedule(Function) -- see schedule -- schedule a task for execution
• schedule(Function,Thing) -- see schedule -- schedule a task for execution
• schedule(Task) -- see schedule -- schedule a task for execution

Methods that use a task:

• addCancelTask(Task,Task) -- specify that the completion of one task triggers the cancellation of another
• addDependencyTask(Task,Task) -- schedule a task, but ensure that it will not run until another task finishes
• addStartTask(Task,Task) -- schedule a task upon completion of another
• cancelTask(Task) -- stop a task
• isCanceled(Task) -- whether a task has been canceled
• isReady(Task) -- whether a task is finished
• taskResult(Task) -- retrieve the value returned by a task

For the programmer

The object Task is a type, with ancestor class Thing.

The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/ov_threads.m2:498:0.