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Edit summary for version 39 by slashmili:
[Elixir] The previous code was using Erlang library, this new one is using Elixir module

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2017-01-01, 22:02:06

Version 39

2017-01-03, 11:11:50

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.

Elixir

Elixir

Code

:timer.sleep(5000)

Code

Process.sleep(5000)

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Elixir can leverage Erlang's stdlib, one of them is the :timer module, which has a sleep(milliseconds) function.

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Sleeps the current process by timeout.

timeout is either the number of milliseconds to sleep as an integer or the atom :infinity. When :infinity is given, the current process will suspend forever.

Doc URL

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Process.html#sleep/1

Demo URL

http://elixirplayground.com?gist=b7e05b38a5263b46ff72

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Idiom #45 Pause execution for 5 seconds

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