On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:44 PM, joe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is the function* syntax for generators final?
>
Yes
> I'm curious what the justification for it is,
>
The yield keyword was previously only reserved in strict mode (ES5
7.6.1.2), which means it's perfectly valid JS to have: function f() { var
yield = 1; return yield; } in non-strict mode code. In order to allow
generator functions in both strict and non-strict code, where yield is a
keyword, a new syntactic form was needed, ie. the star (generator)
function. This avoids potentially breaking any existing code that is using
yield as an identifier.
> but mostly I just need to know if it's likely to change.
>
I'm confident that it will not change.
Rick
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