---
date: 2020-11-20
id: 048ee80a-c058-4a41-8087-9ce3649302ba
title: pending
---

# Description

pending[^1] creates a future which never resovles, representing a
computation that never finishes.

# Declaration

``` rust
pub fn pending<T>() -> Pending<T>
```

# Notable traits

``` rust
impl<T> Future for Pending<T>
    type Output = T;
```

# Examples

``` rust
use core::future;

let future = future::pending();
let () = future.await;
unreachable!();
```

# Footnotes

[^1]: <https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/future/fn.pending.html>