Bug #41818 for Every: Add iteration support

Thu Dec 18 23:02:57 2008 jpierce [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Add iteration support

This module would be more useful if it also provided a facile mechanism (perhaps an iterator) to return truth every N invocations...

Thu Apr 01 14:45:34 2010 TEODOR [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Dec 18 23:02:57 2008, JPIERCE wrote: Show quoted text

> This module would be more useful if it also provided a facile mechanism > (perhaps an iterator) to return truth every N invocations...

I'm so sorry I missed this ticket, Jerrad. Apologies. Do you mean a tied variable that can be passed around? You can do that more easily with the optional identifier you can pass to every(). Or am I misunderstanding? Thanks Ted

Thu Apr 01 14:45:37 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Apr 02 14:58:54 2010 belg4mit [...] pthbb.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #41818] Add iteration support
Date:	Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:58:40 -0400
To:	bug-Every [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit [...] pthbb.org>

It's been so long I cannot recall. Reading it now, my guess would be that the every(N) cycles form satisfies this, but that at the time I interepreted cycles as relating to the processor rather than rounds of the loop. Clearer wording might help, as could the canonical example of every(2) to alternate row colors in the synopsis. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 19th of Discord, in the YOLD 3176: Snoochie Boochie Noochies!

Tue Apr 06 08:51:06 2010 TEODOR [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I made two changes, one in the example: print_stats() if every(20); # every 20 cycles ($_ is 19, 39, etc.) and one in the docs, marked with >>>: =head1 FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE =head2 every( $number [, @id] ) =head2 every( seconds => $number [, @id] ) Returns true every C<$number> times it's called, or every time C<$number> seconds have elapsed since the last time it was called. Show quoted text

>>> Note the first (0) cycle doesn't count.

I think that's OK, do you think it's understandable? Also should I make the 0 count (for alternating table rows, for example) optionally active? I haven't needed that but maybe you and others do. Ted

Tue Apr 06 11:18:31 2010 belg4mit [...] pthbb.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #41818] Add iteration support
Date:	Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:18:03 -0400
To:	bug-Every [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit [...] pthbb.org>

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>Also should I make the 0 count (for alternating table rows, for example) >optionally active? I haven't needed that but maybe you and others do.

I don't see any particular need for it, but if implemented it would probably be better as a more general 'offset' to count from, which then defaults to 0. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Sweetmorn, the 23rd of Discord, in the YOLD 3176: spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam lovely spam