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Is there ever a good reason to pass a string to setTimeout?
I just read a comment stating it is bad practice.. Is that so? And why?
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Is there ever a good reason to pass a string to setTimeout?
I just read a comment stating it is bad practice.. Is that so? And why?
Yes, it is.
The string must be
eval‘d, which is evil (and very slow).It also prevents you from using local variables in the callback.