This was from back in the days when Google code search was still available
and the only hits we found were from test suites.
On Jun 13, 2013 8:54 PM, "Brendan Eich" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Luke Hoban wrote:
>
>> The ES6 draft grammar no longer allows the following, which was legal ES5:
>>
>> for(var i = 1 in []) {}
>>
>> Was that an intentional breaking change? If so, why?
>>
>
> Yes, to simplify and tighten up grammar (and engines). We reckoned that
> only testsuites counted on this. This was recorded in some meeting notes
> but I'm not free to dig them up right now.
>
> (Of course, there are exceedingly limited practical uses of this, but
>> that alone doesn't seem to justify a breaking change).
>>
>
> We had some web crawling help, IIRC. We also figured we had time to test
> and put it back, if needed. Did you find web content using it?
>
> /be
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