while(true)

[Selim Ozel]

On Saturday, 25 September 2021 at 10:32:10 UTC, jfondren wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 September 2021 at 10:17:32 UTC, Selim Ozel 
> wrote:
>> Thanks for the answer. I have actually just re-remembered the 
>> thread library in D. Following worked for me.
>>
>> ```d
>> import core.thread;
>> import core.time: dur;
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> void threadFunc(){
>>   writeln("Thread entered");
>>   while(true){
>>     Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) );
>>     writeln("Once per 5 seconds.");
>>   }
>> }
>>
>> void main() {
>>   auto composed = new Thread(&threadFunc).start();
>> }
>>
>> ```
>
> What this program does is run with two threads, one sleeping in 
> a loop and one waiting for the other thread to end. If you're 
> starting a thread so that you can call Thread.sleep in it, 
> that's not necessary. You could just rename `threadFunc` to 
> `main` here, and of course get rid of the original main(), and 
> it'd work.

That's much better. Thanks a lot.

Selim