On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 at 09:32:13 UTC, drathier wrote:
What's the obvious way to put a timeout around a function call? I'm thinking a 5 or 30 second timeout, and I'm expecting it to pretty much never time out.
You have several options. Either you use the actor model (spawn[Linked]) and send a termination message after a specified time. Or you use a task and check for yourTask.done(). Or you could create a Thread and check isRunning.
(You didn't specify what you wanted to happen and if blocking was allowed or not)
