"Make commonly used things easy make rare difficult things possible". In my opinion something like: /// Current thread sleep. void sleep (unsigned int microseconds); It is the most common use and providing a standard library version of this is, in my opinion, a good thing because: 1. Makes it easy for novices to use it. 2. Makes it more convenient for the experienced. I am with RocWood, I think an API should be simple, even obvious for the simple commonly used stuff. Best regards, Maurício Gomes Pensar Digital 55-11-4121-6287 (Brazil) On Oct 4, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Christian Henning wrote:
Why not just write a wrapper function to make it as easy as you want?
Like:
void sleep_seconds( unsigned int nSeconds ) { boost::xtime xt; boost::xtime_get(&xt, boost::TIME_UTC); xt.sec += nSeconds; // change xt to next second boost::thread::sleep(xt); }
Christian
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boost::thread::sleep, IMHO, it's too inconvenient. RocWood wrote: I get these example code to sleep 1 second, { boost::xtime xt; boost::xtime_get(&xt, boost::TIME_UTC); xt.sec += 1; // change xt to next second boost::thread::sleep(xt); } and, only 1 line in another platform(origianl plaform or java) { sleep(1000); } hmmm... Too inconvenient, and, to make things worse, quite a heavy calling. Is there any suggestion for me? Thanks.