* need to clear our reference to the TimeoutFuture is the reason we use a *static* nested
       * class with a manual reference back to the "containing" class.)
       *
       * This has the nice-ish side effect of limiting reentrancy: run() calls
       * timeoutFuture.setException() calls run(). That reentrancy would already be harmless, since
       * timeoutFuture can be set (and delegate cancelled) only once. (And "set only once" is