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2015-09-03, 15:17:06

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2015-09-03, 21:28:43

Idiom #45 Pause execution for 5 seconds

Sleep for 5 seconds in current thread, before proceeding with next instructions.

Idiom #45 Pause execution for 5 seconds

Sleep for 5 seconds in current thread, before proceeding with next instructions.

Code 
IO.puts "hello"
:timer.sleep(5000)
IO.puts "world"
Comments bubble
Elixir can leverage Erlang's stdlib, one of them is the :timer module, which has a sleep(miliseconds) function.
Demo URL
http://elixirplayground.com?gist=b7e05b38a5263b46ff72