dispatch_after - GCD in Swift?

Question

I\'ve gone through the iBook from Apple, and couldn\'t find any definition of it:

Can someone explain the structure of dispatch_after?

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Answer 1

I use dispatch_after so often that I wrote a top-level utility function to make the syntax simpler:

func delay(delay:Double, closure:()->()) {
    dispatch_after(
        dispatch_time(
            DISPATCH_TIME_NOW,
            Int64(delay * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC))
        ),
        dispatch_get_main_queue(), closure)
}

And now you can talk like this:

delay(0.4) {
    // do stuff
}

Wow, a language where you can improve the language. What could be better?

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Update for Swift 3, Xcode 8 Seed 6

Seems almost not worth bothering with, now that they've improved the calling syntax:

func delay(_ delay:Double, closure:@escaping ()->()) {
    let when = DispatchTime.now() + delay
    DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: when, execute: closure)
}