Re: delay in perlscripts?

[Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>]

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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Decklin Foster wrote:
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: No, you need to add a handler for the actual invite message. At some
: point, sleep will not cover the lag, and you will lose. Check the raw
: log window to see what you need to dispatch on.

Yes, but how would I make that handler active ONLY when I type the command
that initiates the whole thing? I wouldn't want to add a handler for
invite to be on all the time, only when I actually call the command that
tells the bot to invite and starts the sequence.

: Now, a question for the rest of the group. What do we do when sleep()
: is replaced by sub_which_performs_several_seconds_of_computation()?

Good question.
...
: I sort of suspect that IRC::blah is just pushing commands onto a queue
: that gets flushed whenever the code dips back into XChat. But I don't
: know the internals.

It looks that way, however I do not know either.

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