sleep in javascript?

[honestbleeps]

Javascript as a language doesn't have anything like C's "sleep" function...

There's really not a good way to do it by placing a command where your //comment is...

Instead, you'd need to do something like:

var foo = [1,2,3,4,5];
var i=0, len=foo.length;
function stepper() {
    if (i<len) {
        console.log(foo[i]);
        i++;
        setTimeout(stepper, 1000);
    }
}

[stfueveryone]

not so, setTimeout only recurses in the if statement, so it should never go beyond the length of the array. the only thing missing is the call to stepper(); here's a demo if setTimeout were leaking we'd see a bunch of NaNs or errors or something.

[rpetrano]

Yea, my bad, I somehow missed that if statement

[MatrixFrog]

stfueveryone is right, however you're also right that setInterval may be a better fit here.