Bringing setTimeout to ECMAScript

[Wes Garland]

Right: the barrier to setTimeout functionality is that ECMAscript does not
define a concurrency model.

If we can define a concurrency model, then we can build setTimeout.

Two things off the top of my head to consider:
 - timer granularity
 - forbidding eval-like syntax

OTOH, if we have an event-loop system with conditionals, we might not need
setTimeout because it would be trivial to build from primitives. But it
might be a handy interface if ES starts to go toward the "batteries
included" model.

Wes

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