Re: Can't Lua ever sleep?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2017-03-06 7:53 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
> It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
>> I've searched the manual for "sleep", "wait", "pause", "delay"
>> and not found any except the pauses of the GC. Does it have
>> a different name or must I load some module?
>
>   In the context of POSIX:
>
>         sleep() pause execution for a given amount of time
>         wait()  pause execution until a child process exits
>         pause() pause execution until a signal happens
>         delay   there is no spoon
>
>   -spc (So what exactly are you trying to achieve?)

A semi-animated slideshow in lcurses. I have a Turbo Pascal
mindset when it comes to fullscreen text apps. Unit Crt used to
have a "Delay", lcurses seems not to.