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In your REPL of choice you can create a ticker and then start and stop it at will.
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ticker.coffee
class exports.Ticker
constructor: (timeout) ->
@timeout = timeout || 1000
_nextTick: =>
@tick = setTimeout(@_nextTick, @timeout)
console.log 'tick'
start: ->
@_nextTick()
stop: ->
clearTimeout @tick
console.log 'stopped'
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Similarly, in both the coffee and node REPL you can set a ticking ticker equal to undefined and it will continue ticking, though again, you will no longer be able to stop it.

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