Yep, hack the chuck source, or... As with so many of use do with quarter, eighth, etc., Just add a one line definition at the top of your ChucK file(s): 100000000 * week => dur forever; // effectively forever or another alternative: Event forever; // if this is ChucKed to now, but never thrown, then it's truly forever Yer pal, PRC On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:00 AM, chuck-users-request@lists.cs.princeton.edu wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:55:37 -0400 From: David Ogborn To: ChucK Users Mailing List Subject: [chuck-users] a strange idea Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi all,

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?

A lot of sample code has something like this in it: while(1::minute=>now){}

It would be elegant if this could be written like this: forever => now;

Or something like that!

eternity => now; // ?

eternity; // ?

eternity(); // ?

I fully realize that this is violating the perfectly valid principle of "if it ain't broke don't fix it"!

Yours truly, David

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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:14:39 -0500 From: Michael Heuer To: ChucK Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [chuck-users] a strange idea Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

David Ogborn wrote:

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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?

A lot of sample code has something like this in it: while(1::minute=>now){}

It would be elegant if this could be written like this: forever => now;

Or something like that!

eternity => now; // ?

1::week => now;

is pretty long. :)

michael

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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:52:36 -0400 From: David Ogborn To: ChucK Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [chuck-users] a strange idea Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Yeah, I know...

but it's still not eternity! :)

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...

Yours truly, David

On 2012-10-23, at 11:14 PM, Michael Heuer wrote:

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David Ogborn wrote:

...

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?

A lot of sample code has something like this in it: while(1::minute=>now){}

It would be elegant if this could be written like this: forever => now;

Or something like that!

eternity => now; // ?

1::week => now;

is pretty long. :)

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