[RFE] getTime/getDelta

[CodeBunny]

No question that it could be used correctly. However, matheus23 already wrote code snippet which demonstrates how it might get mis-used:

All code can be used wrongly - what's important is how easily it can be used correctly.

You don't constrain an API on the sole reason people could attempt retarded things with it.

[princec]

The more API we add to LWJGL beyond that which is minimally necessary to achieve what it does, the more API nobody knows about, the more potential bugs and the more maintenance. This is why we have historically avoided adding cruft like this to the core classes and plonked them into the util jar.

Cas

[matheus23]

No question that it could be used correctly. However, matheus23 already wrote code snippet which demonstrates how it might get mis-used:

All code can be used wrongly - what's important is how easily it can be used correctly.

You don't constrain an API on the sole reason people could attempt retarded things with it.

You could add a static variable easily in some class like "DeltaUtil", and call

Code:

DeltaUtil.update()

every game-cycle, which is doing the exact same thing:

Code:

[variable-name] = getDeltaTimePrivate(); // Maybe another name

and let getDelta() do this:

Code:

public double getDelta() {
    return [variable-name];
}

That's it

[CodeBunny]

The more API we add to LWJGL beyond that which is minimally necessary to achieve what it does, the more API nobody knows about, the more potential bugs and the more maintenance. This is why we have historically avoided adding cruft like this to the core classes and plonked them into the util jar.

Cas

Makes sense.

@Simon
That seems like a less intuitive API to me.