javascript - Why can't I pass "window.location.reload" as an argument to setTimeout?

Friday 29 December 2017

I would love some insight into the error I am seeing in
Safari and Chrome with the following line of
code:

setTimeout(window.location.reload, 250);

Chrome reports: />Uncaught TypeError: Illegal invocation

And Safari: />TypeError: Type error

In
FireFox, the code runs fine. Also, this code runs fine in each of the three browsers:

setTimeout((function() {

            window.location.reload();
}),
            250);

Chrome and Safari have no
issues with this code:

var say_hello =
            function () { alert("hello") };
setTimeout(say_hello,
            250);

What is special about
window.location.reload that causes this
error?

(not sure if it's useful or not, but here's a href="http://jsfiddle.net/goggin13/SQ7az/5/" rel="noreferrer">jsfiddle
illustrating this)

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