Unexpected object behaviour when using setTimeOut

[IrYoKu]

Hi,

I was coding a script and have come to this problem:

I have a global variable called tasks, that contain objects of prototype task -I have tried to simplify the code-


tasks = new Array();
tasks[0] = new task;
tasks[0].taskR();

function task();
{
function taskR()
{
window.setTimeOut(tasks[0].taskR, 10);
}
}


What I want is an object that contains a function that call itselft recursively every 10 ms.

I pass to setTimeOut the function I want to call (not an expresion, the omission of the quotation marks is intentional), but the script don't work because it seems (this is my own theory) that the tasks[0].taskR called by setTimeOut is not the taskR that contain tasks[0]. It is treated as another function (maybe contained in the global scope of the script) and I don't understand very well this behaviour. If you try this script it will hang your navigator and probably your os (if Windows).

I know there are an easy work around to this, but I would like to know why this script is not working to get a better understanding of the javascript objects.

This page (http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/2311) is very informative but I think that by itselft doesn't answer my question.

Thanks a lot,
IrYoKu