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Call setTimeout function in a loop

I am new to javascript and trying to call a function using setTimeout from a for loop. A loop is executed for each nodeList element.

I find that the function I call with setTimeout only executes during the last iteration of the loop. In the example below, I would like to make three separate calls to setTimeout, but I found that the first two calls are ignored.

function moveants(e, stepdistance) {

    . . . . .

    for(var i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
        var nextAnt = antgroup.childNodes[i]
        nextAnt.count = 0;
        nextAnt.member = i;
        setTimeout(function () { takeStep(nextAnt, mouseclickX, mouseclickY, 10) }, 0);
    }
}

function takeStep(ant, destX, destY, stepDistance) {

    . . . .

    . . . .

    if( condition )
    {
        return;
    }
    else
    {
        takeStep(ant, destX, destY, stepDistance);
    }
}

I saw other posts that describe several setTimeout calls. Surprisingly (for me), multiple calls will work if I just pull them out of a for loop like this.

    setTimeout(function () { takeStep(antgroup.childNodes[0], 
         mouseclickX, mouseclickY, 10) }, 10);
    setTimeout(function () { takeStep(antgroup.childNodes[1], 
         mouseclickX, mouseclickY, 10) }, 10);
    setTimeout(function () { takeStep(antgroup.childNodes[2], 
         mouseclickX, mouseclickY, 10) }, 10);

I just can't understand why there is a difference between calling them from a for loop and calling them outside of one.

setInterval . , for .

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nextAnt , takeStep() 3 , .

:

(function(a,b,c){
     setTimeout(function(){
                           takeStep(a,b,c,10)}, 0);
      })(nextAnt, mouseclickX, mouseclickY);
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:

function moveants(e, stepdistance)
{
    for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
        setTimeout("takeStep(antgroup.childNodes[i], mouseclickX, mouseclickY, 10)", 0);
    }
}

:

function moveants(e, stepdistance)
{
    for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
        takeStep(antgroup.childNodes[i], mouseclickX, mouseclickY, 10);
    }
}
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