Bringing setTimeout to ECMAScript

[Jorge]

On 20/03/2011, at 21:30, Dean Landolt wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
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>> It's the one browser makers have all implemented.
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> The key word here is "browser makers". Maybe node's process.nextTick is a footgun,

It isn't a footgun, it's a necessity for example for long-running tasks that shouldn't block the event loop. Either a nextTick() or a non-clamping setTimeout( f, 0 );

> but it's one you'll need if you want to roll your own scheduling, for instance.

Exactly.

> Apparently there is real evidence that clamping in setTimeout is necessary but that doesn't mean it makes sense as a language construct.

It doesn't, so we're going to need a non-clamping alias. Perhaps an [ugly]  setTimeout ( ƒ, -1 ) ? 
-- 
Jorge.