Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff

[Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>]

  >> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
  >> on Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:20:31 +0100 wrote:

[...]


  > (with-timeout-forms
  >    (progn
  >      (bla)
  >      (bla))
  >   (1.5 (message "This is sure taking a lot of time..."))
  >   (10 (message "This is sure taking forever!")))

(bla) (bla) are asynchronous forms, right?  I am probably missing
something, but there should be a callback, otherwise how do you know
when (bla) is finished? 


Should negative numbers signify a repeated task?

  (with-timeout-forms
     (progn ...
       )
    (-1 (do-something-every-second))
   )

Then you can pass an explicit callback:

  (with-timeout-forms
     (progn ...
       (bla bla)
       )
    (-.1 (if-job-is-finished-break-timeout-loop))
   )


  Vitalie