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: > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > This is done by configuring the right prompt, which is currently not > supported by iex: `RPROMPT="[%D{%f/%m/%y}|%*]"` > > Doing it *exactly* like this won't allow measuring the time it took but > it can be extended. > > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/b2f0ccf6-0f1b-4385-a022-dd107b450dce%40googlegroups.com.