Re: Stop using "Int" for microsecond delays in "base"

On 27 March 2011 07:59, Edward Kmett wrote:

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Bas van Dijk wrote:

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Or take the one from concurrent-extra:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/concurrent-extra/0.6.0.1/doc/htm...

I'll admit the main problem that I have with the threadDelay in concurrent-extra is the gratuitously unicode source file. I wound up having to reimplement it inside a library of mine to avoid adding a dependency on that extension and the unrelated dependency on stm. =( (Technically, I implemented it directly first, then found concurrent-extra and wasn't willing to refactor to use yours as a result of those.) You are of course free to implement things as you see fit, but little things like that do impact adoption. -Edward

Note that 'delay' uses the 'threadDelay' function internally. AFAIK, this function is only supported in GHC. So to build the module you need GHC anyway which already supports the UnicodeSyntax language extension (since 6.12.1). I do agree that the dependency on stm is unfortunate. I will see if I can put the modules Control.Concurrent.Thread.Delay and Control.Concurrent.Timeout into a separate package. Any naming suggestions? unbounded-delays or something? Bas