time: reconsider rejection of #17601 (time: create ticker with instant first tick)

[s7v7nislands]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.11.2 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/Users/s7v7nislands/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/s7v7nislands/go"
GOPROXY=""
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.2/libexec"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.11.2/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD=""
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/6v/g6zn4dm124v2pg2zwkw0c4t40000gn/T/go-build116331184=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

The current time.NewTicker(time.Duration) makes its first tick after the given duration. ue to the nature of most ticker-dependent implementations, it is hard to elegantly add a tick right after calling the method.

Therefore, I want to propose a new method time.NewTickerStart(time.Duration), f.e. that does exactly the same as time.NewTicker, but fires the first tick directly after creation.

What did you expect to see?

What did you see instead?

[ALTree]

This was asked and rejected in the past, in #17601, as you noted.

rsc wrote:

This doesn't seem to rise to the level of new API. You don't have to "copy the section of code underneath the first <-t.C", you just have to put the code in its own function and call that function once at the start and once after each timeout interval. That seems clear enough.

What has changed since 2 years ago, when this was rejected? When asking to reconsider an old decision, you'll need to explain why are you hoping the answer will be different now.

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