Improvement: Option to stop the update loop of the bot about telegram-bot-api HOT 2 CLOSED

This issue came up before, #52

As I told them, the whole function is only a few lines of code so I'd suggest just implementing such a function yourself with your custom method for stopping. Given that the provided updates function is somewhat opinionated (how it logs errors and hardcoded time delay), it's not unreasonable to expect others to rewrite it anyway. I'd especially not like to break compatibility with older versions for a feature few people are likely to use.

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Oh, I see, didn't find that issue before.
The problem is, at least from what I understand, that it's not really possible to create an external method that will stop the update loop, as it starts a goroutine with an infinite loop without a break statement anywhere.
The only way would be to recreate the GetUpdatesChan method outside the package, but that is somewhat weird, imho.
Why are you against having a stop method inside the package?
I understand the considetaion of not breaking API for existing users, but from the PR I suggested I don't see how that could happen.
Of course I might be missing something there, in that case, I'd be happy to fix that. I just think that support for new features that don't break anything for existing users, is a good thing to consider :)

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