bug#70221: [PATCH] New function `funcall-later`

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: 70221@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:44:05 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> > Do this mean (run-with-timer 0 nil ...) can always be replaced with a
> > more efficient (funcall-later ...)?  If so, would it make sense to
> > modify run-with-time as well to call funcall-later when if its first two
> > argument is (0 nil)?
> 
> No: beside the fact that they are run at slightly different times
> (which might be OK), `funcall-later` doesn't return a handle you can
> then use to cancel the call.

This should be mentioned in the documentation.