What's the differenct between passing a function and the function call itself in javascript?
- by Mingus Rude
In the application I'm building I'm polling for a status update and I have noticed that if the call is made as follows the timeout fires continuously:
setTimeout($.get("http://localhost:8080/status", function(data) { UpdateStatus(data);}), 1000);
While if use a function instead the timeout fires every 1000 ms:
setTimeout(function() {$.get("http://localhost:8080/status", function(data) { UpdateStatus(data);})}, 1000);
Why?
