Add an Every __ Seconds do block

[bennytheshap]

In _ seconds do once, fires once. I'm imagining a block that repeatedly does something, but that only does it every so often

[mpahrens]

Implementing this is super simple. You would just implement it exactly the same as In _ seconds do, but my only questions would be: Is there a block to be able to stop this callback event? and if so, how do we distinguish between multiple ones. For example:

start do
every_seconds 5, do
say "hello"
end
every_seconds 9, do
say "goodbye"
end
end
receive_message "stop saying hello" do

how do we stop? but leave the other one alone. Or does that matter?
end

[bennytheshap]

every_seconds 5, do say “yo dawg” until is_tired(dog)

On Aug 31, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Matthew Ahrens notifications@github.com wrote:

Implementing this is super simple. You would just implement it exactly the same as In \ seconds do_, but my only questions would be: Is there a block to be able to stop this callback event? and if so, how do we distinguish between multiple ones. For example:

start do

every_seconds 5, do

say "hello"

end

every_seconds 9, do

say "goodbye"

end

end

receive_message "stop saying hello" do

how do we stop? but leave the other one alone. Or does that matter?

end

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[bennytheshap]

Or even...

let thingie = every_seconds 5, do
   say "yo dawg"
end

#some_other_place
stop_doing thingie