Re: How to properly Thread.sleep?

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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);