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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:49:26 -0500
From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
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Subject: Timeouts in Event module
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Does anyone know of a way of achieving timeouts using OCaml's Event
module?  Reppy's Concrrent ML has timeout and attime events which
cover for that need.  I'm wondering if there is some other way of
implementing this using Event, or if this is just a missing feature.

Thanks,
Yaron