[STM] Better name for waitUntil?

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

waitUntil sounds like a plausible name.  Better than itsAfter or
timeAfter.  But perhaps sleepUntil would be better, because it's a
variant of sleep?

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
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| bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Zielonka
| Sent: 19 December 2005 09:28
| To: GHC-users
| Subject: [STM] Better name for waitUntil?
| 
| Hello!
| 
| I am finishing my waitUntil implementation for STM. It's a new
| STM action that will allow to wait for a given time point.
| 
|     waitUntil :: UTCTime -> STM ()
| 
| (UTCTime is from Ashley Yakeley's Time library.)
| 
| The intended semantics is that
| 
|     waitUntil t
| 
| will succeed as soon as time passes t, or more precisely when (now >=
t).
| 
| Right now I am to find a better name for waitUntil. Maybe it should be
| more declarative, like "itsAfter" or "timeAfter"? I am not a native
english
| speaker, so I am probably missing many options. Any ideas?
| 
| I also think about adding something like "itsBefore", which would mean
| (now < t).
| 
| How about "it'sAfter" ?
| Maybe only "after", without "it's" ?
| 
| Thanks in advance for your help.
| 
| PS. I imagine that it would be possible to implement waitUntil more
|     efficiently in GHC's RTS, but my implementation can be a nice
|     showcase for STM's expressivity, and it's still quite efficient
|     (I used some (quite elegant :) hacks to implement subsecond
|     precision waitUntil efficiently).
| 
| Best regards
| Tomasz
| 
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