Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
- Subject: Re: floating point idle delays, 'with timeout' and the date class
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:00:25 -0800
On 3/14/2004 20:00, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 3/14/04 7:38 PM, "Walter Ian Kaye" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Except that does _not_ work in 'with timeout of' . That requires 'seconds'
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>> [or 'second'] as part of the statement. 'minutes' (and 'hours', 'days' and
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>> 'weeks') are constants that can be used as a conversion for numbers, but not
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>> in 'with timeout'.
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> And this works in AS 1.1, OS 7.6.1:
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> with timeout of (10 * minutes) seconds
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Right, 'minutes' really is just the number 60.
And if you don't like the "sound" of 'minutes seconds', you are free to
write
with timeout of (minutes * 10) seconds
That may or may not be more pleasing. --John
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