Re: ANN: sleep() patch for Lua 4.0

["Thatcher Ulrich" <tu@...>]

On Dec 10, 2001 at 04:31 -0600, jim@mathies.com wrote:
> you might consider changing "sleep()" to something else like "lsleep()" or
> similar? people might confuse if for the real "sleep( millisec )" call.

Do you mean the "Sleep(millis)" Win32 API?  There's also the "sleep"
Unix shell command, which shows up in Perl et al (but takes seconds,
not milliseconds).

I don't have a strong attachment to "sleep()"; I got the impression
from the list archives that it would be a commonly understood name for
this functionality.  Another possibility is "yield()".  ET's coroutine
library uses "co_resume()", if I understand the man page correctly,
but I think that might be confusing (especially so, when mixed with a
Lua binding to ET's library...).  "lsleep()" is slightly cryptic IMO,
but maybe it's justified for avoiding confusion.

Anybody else with naming opinions, feel free to let me know.  If the
Lua authors might consider adopting this functionality in the core
Lua, then whatever name they like is also the one I like :)

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