On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < [email protected]> wrote:
> my problems is that generators were not needed there ... values() as array > of values, keys() as array of keys and items() as array of key/value pairs. > When were these ever arrays? Here's their first appearance, this revision: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:simple_maps_and_sets&rev=1339969786 Either way, all you need to do is stop treating the _proposal_ as a normative specification and start using the actual spec as a reference and this isn't a problem. Here's what I do: whenever I need to refresh on something ES6 related, I look at Allen's _latest_ draft first—usually the one with the change markup (this is useful, because Allen regularly leaves notes about the changes). If I can't find what I'm looking for, then I look at my meeting notes. If I'm still unable to find the answer, then the very last place I look is at the proposal. I find this approach greatly reduces my need to post messages of outrage to mailing list. Rick > This is even **easier** > > Generators because you wrote them in PHP ... this, is non sense to me (I > am zend certified engineer if you are wondering) > > Anyway, problem solved: harmony pages and examples in them are outdated. > > > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Giammarchi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > yes, I should have checked the specs but that page should be either >> updated >> > or removed. >> > >> > Anyway you still didn't convince me generators were needed at all there, >> > neither that I can "simply shim iterators" 'cause this makes generators >> > pointless in first place if it was so easy to polyfill ... which is not. >> >> I still have no idea what your problem with this is. Your objections >> aren't making any sense. >> >> In general, generators are very hard to polyfill. (Not impossible, as >> you can do a CPS transform of the source code, but very difficult.) >> >> This is not the general case, this is a very simple specific case. >> You just need a trivial little iterator that runs over the internal >> data structure of the Map/Set. I've written these kinds of things >> tons of times for classes in PHP, so they can work conveniently with >> PHP foreach() loops. >> >> That said, the reason the harmony page defined the methods with >> generators is that, as easy as it is to write an iterator manually for >> them, it's *even easier* to write them with a generator. That's all. >> >> ~TJ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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