I'm trying to get the second example, "/drums," of Dancer2 code here working. It makes use of AnyEvent However, it doesn't seem to do anything at all except print Stretching... and I'm trying to figure out why.

So I just heard of AnyEvent. I wrote the following to get familiar with it:

#! /usr/bin/env perl

use AnyEvent;

my $timer_once = AE::timer 0.5, 0.5, sub { print 'too late' };

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I discover it doesn't do anything. I google around and come across this faq.

So I see the suggestions on the faq for overcoming this but decide to try this instead expecting it to keep the programming running long enough so I would see some output:

use AnyEvent;

my $timer_once = AE::timer 0.5, 0.5, sub { print 'too late' };
for (my $x = 0; $x < 200000000; $x++) { }

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It takes several seconds for my computer to count to 200,000,000 but I still see no output from the timer. So what am I missing and does it have anything to do with why the Dancer2 code doesn't work? Thanks and Merry Christmas.

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