How to properly Thread.sleep?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 17:23:40 UTC, Israel wrote:
> What is the proper way of adding sleep time to a program?

The documentation examples are exactly how you can do it:

Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds


Try one of those lines in your program and you'll see it work.

You can also call the various C functions to do it but the 
Thread.sleep is often a bit easier.

> The documentation examples dont make sense. Why would it work 
> this way?

sleep is a static method on the Thread class, so you need to call 
it Thread.sleep instead of plain sleep, and the argument uses a 
different type to make the units a bit more clear.

I believe

Thread.sleep(3.seconds);

shoudl also work.