<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yeah, I know...<div><br></div><div>but it's still not eternity! :)</div><div><br></div><div>When I read 1::week => now, there is a little part of my brain that fast forwards to the moment one week from now when the code is supposed to end, and is bugged by the, admittedly completely hypothetical (at least in most cases), articulation of that moment...</div><div><br></div><div>Yours truly,</div><div>David</div><div><br><div><div>On 2012-10-23, at 11:14 PM, Michael Heuer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>David Ogborn <<a href="mailto:ogbornd@mcmaster.ca">ogbornd@mcmaster.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">While preparing some sample code for the Cybernetic Orchestra, I hit upon a strange idea I thought I would share with this list. What if there were an instruction/built-in function in ChucK that yielded control forever?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A lot of sample code has something like this in it:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">while(1::minute=>now){}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It would be elegant if this could be written like this:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">forever => now;<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Or something like that!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">eternity => now; // ?<br></blockquote><br>1::week => now;<br><br>is pretty long. :)<br><br> michael<br>_______________________________________________<br>chuck-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu">chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu</a><br>https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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