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tinyhitman • last Tuesday at 11:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.

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crdrost • last Tuesday at 11:56 PM

pro tip: no longer necessary

    { let count = 50; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count <= 0) clearInterval(interval); }, 100) }