Re: Can't Lua ever sleep?
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- Subject: Re: Can't Lua ever sleep?
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:31:39 +0200
2017年03月06日 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.