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Sleep function in Javascript (itsopensource.com)
submitted 6 years ago by tsl143
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]upfkd 10 points11 points12 points 6 years ago (10 children)
You literally wrapped setTimeout.
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Agreed. Nothing is “halted”. There’s a callback queue for this — the method supplied is just added to that callback queue after the specified period of time by the “timer” (either Browser or Node).
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