• Israel (18/18) Mar 25 2015 Ive tried using google but no matter what code i find it either
• Sad panda (4/23) Mar 25 2015 Thread.sleep(200.msecs);
• Israel (2/5) Mar 25 2015 There we go, thank you so much.
• Adam D. Ruppe (13/16) Mar 25 2015 The documentation examples are exactly how you can do it:
• =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= (7/24) Mar 25 2015 Replace that with

"Israel" <tl12000 live.com> writes:

Ive tried using google but no matter what code i find it either 
doesnt work, compiler gives me errors or maybe the code is 
deprecated.

What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?
Ive tried..

import std.stdio;
import core.thread;

void main()
{
      writeln("Sleep..");
      sleep(200);
      writeln("done");
}

but all i get is a compiler error unidentified identifier sleep.

The documentation examples dont make sense. Why would it work 
this way?

Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds

"Sad panda" <asdf asdf.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:23:40 UTC, Israel wrote:
 Ive tried using google but no matter what code i find it either 
 doesnt work, compiler gives me errors or maybe the code is 
 deprecated.

 What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?
 Ive tried..

 import std.stdio;
 import core.thread;

 void main()
 {
      writeln("Sleep..");
      sleep(200);
      writeln("done");
 }

 but all i get is a compiler error unidentified identifier sleep.

 The documentation examples dont make sense. Why would it work 
 this way?

 Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 
 milliseconds
 Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds

Thread.sleep(200.msecs);
Thread.sleep(12.seconds);
Thread.sleep(1.minutes);

"Israel" <tl12000 live.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:25:50 UTC, Sad panda wrote:
 Thread.sleep(200.msecs);
 Thread.sleep(12.seconds);
 Thread.sleep(1.minutes);

There we go, thank you so much.

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:23:40 UTC, Israel wrote:
 What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?

The documentation examples are exactly how you can do it:

Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds


Try one of those lines in your program and you'll see it work.

You can also call the various C functions to do it but the 
Thread.sleep is often a bit easier.

 The documentation examples dont make sense. Why would it work 
 this way?

sleep is a static method on the Thread class, so you need to call 
it Thread.sleep instead of plain sleep, and the argument uses a 
different type to make the units a bit more clear.

I believe

Thread.sleep(3.seconds);

shoudl also work.

=?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 03/25/2015 10:23 AM, Israel wrote:

 Ive tried using google but no matter what code i find it either doesnt
 work, compiler gives me errors or maybe the code is deprecated.

 What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?
 Ive tried..

 import std.stdio;
 import core.thread;

 void main()
 {
       writeln("Sleep..");
       sleep(200);

Replace that with

      Thread.sleep(200.msecs);

       writeln("done");
 }

 but all i get is a compiler error unidentified identifier sleep.

 The documentation examples dont make sense.

Here is alternative documentation:

   http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/parallelism.html#ix_parallelism.Thread.sleep

 hy would it work this way?

 Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
 Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds

UFCS makes it easier by making those 50.msecs and 5.seconds.

Ali