On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Scott R. Godin wrote: > > Elapse.pm is a very simple class with one method: lapse. > > Basically, the lapse method 'eats the brains' of the variable, > squirrels away whatever value it may have held internally, > (much like space aliens are known to do in the movies), and also stores > the current time within it. Then, whenever you access the value of > the variable, the 'alien' within formats the time *differential* > between when you initialized the variable, and when you printed it, > and returns that (along with any value the variable may hold, as well).
Looks a lot like Time::Stopwatch, except for the fancy output. I hope you don't mind me stealing some ideas -- it's about time I got a new version released, with new bells and whistles. -- Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ "Signal handlers are known to be broken in perl. Did you expect them to somehow get unbroken when ITHREADS is enabled?" -- Gurusamy Sarathy on the perl5-porters list
