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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Timeouts for BlockClosures


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] Timeouts for BlockClosures
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:42:15 +0200
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On 04/06/2011 11:35 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>  Yes, as the primary method.  You can add an extension on BlockClosure 
yourself.
>
>  Squeak has BlockClosure>>#valueWithin:onTimeoutDo: but it accepts a Duration.
>
drat, I thought I invented something. Should we do something similar?

No, accepting a Duration is clearly wrong because it doesn't allow untilMilliseconds waits.

Implement this as part of delay, provide syntactic sugar for BlockClosures
(myself)?

Yes, thanks for putting up with me. :)

Paolo



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