# Delay ⌚

A dead simple data-structure for delaying side effects ⌚! Written in the excellent [gleam ✨](https://gleam.run/) language. Supporting both Erlang & Javascript targets

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## Basic Usage

```gleam
import gleam/io
import delay

let d = delay.delay_effect(fn() {
  io.println("Hello")
  Ok(1)
}) |> delay.map(fn(x) {
  io.println("World")
  Ok(x + 1)
})

let res = delay.run(d)
// Hello
// World
// res = Ok(2)
```

## More info

The result of `delay_effect` is really just a first class function with a nice API wrapper. It isn't executed until put through one of `run/1`, `drain/1`, `fallthrough/1` or one of the other functions in order to execute a delayed effect. And can be called as many times as you want.

```gleam
import gleam/io
import delay

let d = delay.delay_effect(fn() {
  io.println("Hello")
  Error("bummer")
}) |> delay.map(fn(x) {
  io.println("World")
  Ok(x + 1)
})

let res = delay.run(d)
// Hello
// res = Error("bummer")
```

If one of the functions in the chain fails, the rest will short circuit and the error will be returned.

Effects can be retried as well via `retry/3`

```gleam
// using the same effect `d` from above

let res = delay.retry(d, 3, 200)
|> delay.run()
// Hello
// Hello
// Hello
// Hello
// res = Error("bummer")
```

## FAQ

Doesn't the concept of a delayed side effect kind of lose value in the world of actor model concurrency and zero shared memory?!

> A little

Then why did you write this?

> For fun

Is gleam ✨ actually excellent?

> So far