Improve E2 Timers

[Denneisk]

Discussion about making new timers that are more sensible and fit with modern E2. Mostly just writing it here so it can be documented.

The most obvious syntax is probably something like timer(number name, number periodInSeconds, function callback) so you could do

function myFunc() {
    print("function executed")
}

if(first()) {
    timer("myTimer", 3, myFunc)
}

[Fasteroid]

Would be even better with lambdas or a function datatype. Imagine if you could do this:

FuncPtr = function what(){
    print("how")
}
FuncPtr()

timer( "myTimer", FuncPtr, 3 )

Wtf = array()
Wtf[1, function] = FuncPtr

[Denneisk]

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