Passing parameters to setInterval & setTimeout

Sometimes we need to play with timed events. JavaScript comes to the rescue giving access to setTimeout and setInterval. The first one fires only once after a certain amount of time passes, while the second one fires every time a given interval passes. For example if we give 1000 as one of the input variables to setInterval, it will fire every second.

One problem that may arise using these functions is when we want to call a function defined somewhere else and pass a parameter to it. If we try to do the following:

var myFun = function(param) {
    //do something
}

var myParam = 'parameter';

setTimeout(myFun(myParam), 1000);

Instead of executing the function after 1000ms, it will execute it immediately. This is because the compiler first interprets the function calls, like myFun(myParam), and then passes the result as the callback to the setTimeout function. To avoid this, the usual way is to pass function as a variable, thus omitting the parentheses. This of course leads to one problem: how to pass parameters to the callback function? It is done in the following way:

var myFun = function(param) {
    //do something
}

var myParam = 'parameter';

setTimeout(myFun, 1000, myParam, ...);

The three dots there indicates that each following input parameter will be treated as an input parameter to the callback function. The same concept applies for the setTimeout function.