debian man page for coro::timer

Timer(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						Timer(3pm)

NAME
       Coro::Timer - timers and timeouts, independent of any event loop

SYNOPSIS
	# This package is mostly obsoleted by Coro::AnyEvent.

	use Coro::Timer qw(timeout);
	# nothing exported by default

DESCRIPTION
       This package has been mostly obsoleted by Coro::AnyEvent, the only really useful function left in here is "timeout".

       $flag = timeout $seconds
	   This function will wake up the current coroutine after $seconds seconds and sets $flag to true (it is false initially).  If $flag goes
	   out of scope earlier then nothing happens.

	   This is used by Coro itself to implement the "timed_down", "timed_wait" etc. primitives. It is used like this:

	      sub timed_wait {
		 my $timeout = Coro::Timer::timeout 60;

		 while (condition false) {
		    Coro::schedule; # wait until woken up or timeout
		    return 0 if $timeout; # timed out
		 }

		 return 1; # condition satisfied
	      }

AUTHOR
	Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
	http://home.schmorp.de/

perl v5.14.2							    2012-04-13								Timer(3pm)