Re: [AD] yield_timeslice

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Chris:
> When I came newly to Allegro, I would expect code that requires Allegro
> to work. Especially for new coders, library version differences don't 
> register as potential problems, or ones you're willing ot work on to fix.

Yeah, I agree to an extent, I just hope that if Allegro 5 ever becomes a
reality, its feature set won't be dictated by a need to be backwards
compatible.

> Or yield_timeslice could continue to act as it did in 4.1.12 and 
> earlier, with al_idle acting as rest(1). Both would behave differently 
> so there wouldn't be any need to depricate anything. How about this:

> #define yield_timeslice()  rest(0)

That won't work unless rest() is changed; it calls yield_timeslice() on some
platforms.

Kind regards,
Daniel Schlyder
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