Re: time() built-in

• Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 00:26:43 PDT
• From:
  hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
• Reply-To:
  hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
• Cc: hpa@storm.net, MOO-Cows@parc.xerox.com
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• In-Reply-To: <31CCDBCC.742A@wichita.fn.net> from "Martian" at Jun 23, 96 00:53:16 am

> 
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> True, but originally, it returned a list, {seconds, microseconds},
> so I called it us_time.  When floats were introduced, I changed its
> return type.
> 

That's as good of a reason as any to also change the name, since the
function now has a completely different interface.  Just nitpicking,
really, but it is definitely "cleaner".  I am also thrilled to see
floats actually getting used!  :-)

	-hpa


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