Ive tried using google but no matter what code i find it either doesnt work, compiler gives me errors or maybe the code is deprecated.

What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?
Ive tried..

import std.stdio;
import core.thread;

void main()
{
     writeln("Sleep..");
     sleep(200);
     writeln("done");
}

but all i get is a compiler error unidentified identifier sleep.

The documentation examples dont make sense. Why would it work this way?

Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:23:40 UTC, Israel wrote:
> Ive tried using google but no matter what code i find it either doesnt work, compiler gives me errors or maybe the code is deprecated.
>
> What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?
> Ive tried..
>
> import std.stdio;
> import core.thread;
>
> void main()
> {
>      writeln("Sleep..");
>      sleep(200);
>      writeln("done");
> }
>
> but all i get is a compiler error unidentified identifier sleep.
>
> The documentation examples dont make sense. Why would it work this way?
>
> Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
> Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds

Thread.sleep(200.msecs);
Thread.sleep(12.seconds);
Thread.sleep(1.minutes);

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:23:40 UTC, Israel wrote:
> What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?

The documentation examples are exactly how you can do it:

Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds


Try one of those lines in your program and you'll see it work.

You can also call the various C functions to do it but the Thread.sleep is often a bit easier.

> The documentation examples dont make sense. Why would it work this way?

sleep is a static method on the Thread class, so you need to call it Thread.sleep instead of plain sleep, and the argument uses a different type to make the units a bit more clear.

I believe

Thread.sleep(3.seconds);

shoudl also work.

On 03/25/2015 10:23 AM, Israel wrote:

> Ive tried using google but no matter what code i find it either doesnt
> work, compiler gives me errors or maybe the code is deprecated.
>
> What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?
> Ive tried..
>
> import std.stdio;
> import core.thread;
>
> void main()
> {
>       writeln("Sleep..");
>       sleep(200);

Replace that with

     Thread.sleep(200.msecs);

>       writeln("done");
> }
>
> but all i get is a compiler error unidentified identifier sleep.
>
> The documentation examples dont make sense.

Here is alternative documentation:

  http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/parallelism.html#ix_parallelism.Thread.sleep

> hy would it work this way?
>
> Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
> Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds

UFCS makes it easier by making those 50.msecs and 5.seconds.

Ali

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:25:50 UTC, Sad panda wrote:
> Thread.sleep(200.msecs);
> Thread.sleep(12.seconds);
> Thread.sleep(1.minutes);

There we go, thank you so much.