Re: pascal equivalent of python "sleep"

On 8 Mai, 01:42, Sean McIlroy <sean_mcil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi all

i'm trying to brush up my pascal skills after considerable time away.
in python there's a function "sleep" that essentially means "count
your toes for <number> seconds". how does one say this in pascal?

As you can see from the other answers, there
is no 'sleep' in standard Pascal. Therefore it
depends on your compiler and/or operating system.
The 'sleep' function itself has it's roots in the
C / UNIX world.

With such tings as 'sleep' and many other functionality
your program will depend on your Pascal compiler and
become unportable. This is a sad story. If you want
to write portable programs (which run under various
operating systems and compilers) you will have a hard
time doing it in Pascal. Pascal was my favorite language
for approx. 10 years. Such things as otherwise/else
clauses and file buffer variables not consistent between
different compilers make portability hard.

That I still admire Pascal's concepts can be seen
when you look at Seed7. The statements are in the
Pascal/Modula/Ada tradition. BTW. Seed7 does have a
'time.s7i' library which contains the types 'time' and
'duration' and the 'wait' function (which gets a
'duration' as parameter). So you can just do:
wait(1 . SECONDS);

Greetings Thomas Mertes

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