[erlang-questions] writing a delay loop without now()

[Matthew Dempsky]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM, James Hague <james.hague@REDACTED> wrote:
> Very useful...but not for now/0.  A function that returns the current
> time shouldn't itself cause the time to change.  now() is make_ref
> disguised as a clock.

make_ref/0 doesn't return monotonically increasing references.