[squeak-dev] Delay for: 60 seconds vs. Delay forSeconds: 60.
Frank Shearar
frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Fri Jan 8 08:57:54 UTC 2010
Göran Krampe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Frank Shearar wrote:
>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> Hi there -
>>>
>>> I just realized how silly it is to write code like:
>>>
>>> (Delay forSeconds: 60) wait.
>>> (Delay forMilliseconds: 1000) wait.
>>>
>>> when we have units available and might as well say:
>>>
>>> (Delay for: 60 seconds) wait.
>>> (Delay for: 5 days + 3 hours + 17 minutes) wait.
>>>
>>> What do people think about this? Overkill or just right?
>
> Presuming we have no real performance issue I would say the latter is
> probably what we should use - earlier we didn't have Durations in the
> library, but now that we do we should probably go "all the way" to get
> all the polymorphic glory.
There are few things more annoying to me than having to constantly check
the units of that integer you need to pass in to a function: is that
Timeout parameter in milliseconds or seconds? Using Durations everywhere
solves the problem.
frank
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