floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
- Subject: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:00:42 +0100
It's great that idle delays can now be set to floating point values -
especially in the range 0.1->1.0. I have already shaved many minutes off a
the total execution time of a script by using half seconds. Floating point
idle delays will of course become more useful as hardware speeds increase.
This leads me to consider the 'with timeout' control structure. Isn't
there some sense in being able to use values of less than one second there
also? Has this been implemented already?
(I'm not really sure how to test whether I can use fractions of a second,
which is why I am asking here).
Also, why can't we do stuff like
'with timeout of 10 minutes'
?
I know it's syntactical sugar, and it's just a matter of adding '*60' but
where 'seconds' is specified/required we *do* have a core level date class
after all. Why not use it?
Interestingly, the error message produced when attempting to compile the
above code is 'expected "second" or class name'. What class might be
appropriate here?
(I am writing scripts which export audio and video in batches - The time
taken to compress video, for example, is typically measured in minutes or
even hours, so it would be jolly convenient).
Brennan
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