Best way to alias expression

Question

I'm writing a program in C++, and at one part I want the program to sleep for 1 second. I'm using the following expression to be platform independent:

std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::duration<int, std::milli>(1000));

This line is way too long, so I want to use an alias for it. What is the best method to achieve this?

Answer 1

As others have suggested, if you want an “alias” for that action, you can write a function for it. using and std::chrono’s helpers can go a long way, though:

using std::chrono::seconds;
using std::this_thread::sleep_for;
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sleep_for(seconds(1));