I would like to withdraw my proposal of `time/0,1` as it might lead to
developers benchmarking things in the shell.
On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 11:51:32 AM UTC+2, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
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> Is it necessary to have this information on the left? This way both the
> result from your code and some iex internals will print there, which some
> people said could be confusing. What if it's on the right?
> Also instead of showing the time it took to run, could iex allow some
> customization and the execution time could be one of the possibilities?
> For example, my terminal has the datetime on the right, which allows me to
> measure time, too:
> [image: Screen Shot 2019-10-18 at 12.50.17.png]
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> This is done by configuring the right prompt, which is currently not
> supported by iex: `RPROMPT="[%D{%f/%m/%y}|%*]"`
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> Doing it *exactly* like this won't allow measuring the time it took but
> it can be extended.
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> It can also be useful for other scenarios. An example is tracking timeouts
> - if you run a task/call with N seconds timeout, it's easy to see that it
> was started more than N seconds ago just by looking at the datetime of the
> command that initiated it.
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