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[RFC] `time' builtin
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Jose E. Marchesi |
Subject: |
[RFC] `time' builtin |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:12:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi people!
So we need a `time' builtin function to get the time :)
The main motivation is to build seeds for the already existing `rand':
fun rand = (uint<32> seed = 0) int<32>:
Now the question is: what would be a good prototype for `time'? What
should it return? We could:
a) Make it return seconds since the Epoch, or
b) something more elaborated and precise like a struct tm.
Note that we already have a `ptime' function in the standard library
that gives a date in seconds since the Epoch prints a human-readable
version of it:
fun ptime = (uint<64> seconds) void:
So maybe a) is more than enough... thoughts?
- [RFC] `time' builtin,
Jose E. Marchesi <=