When using declare(ticks=xx), the ticking doesn't work in any functions that are called from within this block. It would be really helpful (to me, anyway :), if this worked:

$endtime=time()+10;
$abort=false;
function setabort()
{
   global $endtime, $abort;
   if (time()>=$endtime)
      $abort=true;
}

function SomeFunc()
{
   global $abort;
   while (!$abort) {
      // do stuff
      // call func()s
      // do some more stuff
   }
}

declare(ticks=1000) {
   SomeFunc();
}

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now, currently this works if I put declare() blocks in SomeFunc() and all functions it calls, but it seems a lot of work for something simple. It would be nice if one could just turn ticks on and off without changing every function in a script... (checking time() each iteration is slow)