Causes execution to cease and become dormant for approximately the seconds of real time indicated by seconds, whereupon execution is resumed.
(sleep 1)
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;;; Actually, since SLEEP is permitted to use approximate timing, this might not always ;;; yield true, but it will often enough that we felt it to be a productive example of the intent. (let ((then (get-universal-time)) (now (progn (sleep 10) (get-universal-time)))) (>= (- now then) 10))
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Causes processing to pause.
The granularity of the scheduler.
Should signal an error of type type-error if seconds is not a non-negative real.
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