using Timer._called

[ORESoftware]

How stable/safe is it to reference _called on a timer for library code?

const to = setTimeout(() => {
  console.log(to._called);
}, 10);

console.log(to._called);

before it times out, it is false, after it times out, it is true.
Is this a stable API, can we use it?

[ORESoftware]

bamp

[addaleax]

I guess this wouldn’t be removed without a semver-major change, but you can’t be sure of that. It’s not stable API, and it’s not even public API – if you need something like this, you could propose something like timer.called as a public API that forwards this.

[ORESoftware]

@addaleax yes that makes sense, since you have Le Clout do you want to propose on the Node Github issues? O/w I can do it

[gireeshpunathil]

@ORESoftware - looking at the code, nodejs/node#20555 seems to have removed this field. And given the main intent of that PR is to improve timer performance, I guess an RFE for the above API may require a justification in terms of use case, inability to meet some programming scenarios etc.

[gireeshpunathil]

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