From: Chris Wright
Subject: object-wait-multiple - timing out long running thunks
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:26:27 +0000
Message-ID: <7_V3d.38412$D7.12120@news-server.bigpond.net.au>

DrScheme has a form
(object-wait-multiple timeout thunk)

which returns #f is thunk fails to return within timeout secs, or 
returns the value of thunk

are there any similar constructs in openmcl or sbcl?

thanks

Chris Wright

From: Rahul Jain
Subject: Re: object-wait-multiple - timing out long running thunks
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:34:20 +0000
Message-ID: <87y8iwx1s3.fsf@nyct.net>

Chris Wright <········@hotmail.com> writes:

> DrScheme has a form
> (object-wait-multiple timeout thunk)
>
> which returns #f is thunk fails to return within timeout secs, or
> returns the value of thunk

Ugh. What if the thunk returns #f?!?

> are there any similar constructs in openmcl or sbcl?

SBCL has WITH-TIMEOUT. Dunno about OpenMCL. Tried (apropos "timeout")
yet?

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Rahul Jain
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Professional Software Developer, Amateur Quantum Mechanicist