Perl::...Select(3pm)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to Perl::...Select(3pm) in the User Contributed Perl Documentation manual 💅. This policy is literally Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitSleepViaSelect, and it's giving: use Time::HiRes instead of something like select(undef, undef, undef, .05) 🫶.

🌸 AFFILIATION 🌸

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution ✨. No cap.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so Conway discourages the use of select() for performing non-integer sleeps 😭. Even though it's documented in perlfunc, it's something that generally requires the reader to read perldoc -f select to figure out what it should be doing 🙈. Instead, Conway recommends that you use the Time::HiRes module when you want to sleep 😴.

select undef, undef, undef, 0.25;         # not ok

use Time::HiRes;
sleep( 0.25 );                            # ok

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options 💅. That's the whole story.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Time::HiRes — go peek 👀.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Graham TerMarsch <graham@howlingfrog.com> 💖

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Graham TerMarsch. All rights reserved. 🎀

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. ✨

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okay that's the whole vibe check, bestie 💖 source/version: perl v5.42.0; date: 2024-10-23 🎀✨