provide option for setInterval to execute immediately about espruinodocs HOT 3 CLOSED

This should really be a bug report for in Espruino.

But: While I can see it would be useful, I'm not sure:

setInterval(foo, 60000, { execNow : true });

is really any more obvious than:

setInterval(foo, 60000);
foo();

or:

setInterval(foo, 60000);
setTimeout(foo, 1);

I just don't think it's a good idea - mainly because setInterval is something that's used all over the place and is basically a standard (web browsers, node, etc) and changing the behaviour would be bad news.

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Should be in Espruino, again, my apologies.

I leave this one up to you. Another option would be to introduce a new function that just wraps the setInterval and the direct execution in one. I have used this construct a lot so far, so I would argue that it is a fairly typical use case.

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Sorry - I'm going to close this one. Nobody else has had problems with the old implementation, and you could easily just write the following at the top of your code:

function setIntervalNow(a,b,c) {
  a();
  return setInterval(a,b,c);
}

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