Re: Can't Lua ever sleep?

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 6 March 2017 at 17:31, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-03-06 7:53 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
>> It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
>>> I've searched the manual for "sleep", "wait", "pause", "delay"
>>> and not found any except the pauses of the GC. Does it have
>>> a different name or must I load some module?
>>
>>   In the context of POSIX:
>>
>>         sleep() pause execution for a given amount of time
>>         wait()  pause execution until a child process exits
>>         pause() pause execution until a signal happens
>>         delay   there is no spoon
>>
>>   -spc (So what exactly are you trying to achieve?)
>
> A semi-animated slideshow in lcurses. I have a Turbo Pascal
> mindset when it comes to fullscreen text apps. Unit Crt used to
> have a "Delay", lcurses seems not to.

Do you actually want to sleep for X seconds?
Or do you want to sleep for X seconds *or* until input is received?
(e.g. to allow pressing 'space' to go forwards a slide manually)