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system.sleep()

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[@gavinking] I think we should have a sleep() function in the language module. This can be implemented in both JS and Java, right?

[Migrated from ceylon/ceylon.language#596]

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Created 9 years ago
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renatoathaydescommented, Mar 27, 2016

my CPU run’s hot enough already @jvasileff https://xkcd.com/1172/

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renatoathaydescommented, Mar 27, 2016

It seems to me the appropriate platform-neutral approach to this would have to be to use a callback, so you do not assume the platform you’re running on has Threads or similar:

sleep(1k, function() {
    // after one second, we continue
});

Seems quite reasonable to me. Unless you want to add continuations to the language!

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