- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 03:04:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- cc: Jason Weber <jweber@microsoft.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mozilla.com>, "public-web-perf@w3.org" <public-web-perf@w3.org>
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 7/1/11 6:28 PM, Jason Weber wrote: > > We thought it was important for setImmediate to be semantically identical to > > setTimeout and started from that spec. > > For what it's worth, it's not clear whether it's a good idea to be thus > identical. In particular, the string version of setTimeout seems to be > to have been a design mistake that we should not repeat.... I > understand why it might make sense to make setImmediate as much like > setTimeout as possible, of course. I'm just not sure whether that's > enough reason to proliferate the eval semantics of setTimeout. Also the copy seems to be missing key information, such as the task source. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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