On Nov 4, 2013, at 12:19 AM, GitHub wrote:
> Branch: refs/heads/master
> Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs
> Commit: 9c428a98d060811fa086d3168321cfe437be695a
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> https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/9c428a98d060811fa086d3168321cfe437be695a
> Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen
> Date: 2013-11-04 (Mon, 04 Nov 2013)
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> Changed paths:
>M S17-concurrency.pod
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> Log Message:
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> /.sleep/.alarm/
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> I think ".sleep" is confusing, as its functionality does not match sleep().
> And from this, we could spec an alarm() function, which would just create a
> subscribable with an .alarm and code to be executed when the alarm arrives.
This sounds a lot like WHEN (i.e., the hook that exists for the eventual
implementation of an event-driven programming paradigm) should be involved
somehow.
