FYI, I'm thinking of something like the following: 

sub after {
        my ($time, $anonsub) = @_;
        push @{ $alrmsubs{$time} }, $anonsub;
        return 1;
}

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Except that this will make me check for time/time()-1 (due to the "give-or-take" of, iirc, 1s doc'd in perlfunc) in the alarm, run the alarm sub every second, etc. So, I need improvements on this; as in a way to store anonymous subs in a hash or array or whatever and execute them after the specified time. (Figure out the time until the soonest one, and alarm time-until somehow?)

Once again, I reaaaally need suggestions.

In reply to Re: Timers/running (something) after (sometime) by dimecadmium
in thread Timers/running (something) after (sometime) by dimecadmium

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