A Kinder Gentler Event Loop

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• Subject: A Kinder Gentler Event Loop
• From: Kim Barrett <kab@chestnut.com>
• Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 12:53:55 EST
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• Cc: kmp@symbolics.com
• In-Reply-To: Scott McKay's message of Fri, 15 Mar 1991 11:30-0500 <19910315163051.4.SWM@EVENING-GROSBEAK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

[kmp added as x3j13 editor.]

> Your only other choice is to have the event loop run continuously,
> waiting for a period of time to elapse by watching the clock, since
> SLEEP provides granularity of one second.

I couldn't just let something like this go by.

The definition of SLEEP says that the argument may be any non-negative
non-complex number (probably this should be read as non-negative REAL now).
This permits fractions of a second to be specified.  The actual granularity is
implementation specific.

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