In that case we have a gotcha.

Is there any interest to change that behavior? Since es6 isn’t finial yet.

> On Dec 22, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Gary Guo <nbdd0...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:06:18 +0800, Glen Huang <curvedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Ideally it shouldn’t, because its twin `for (var a in null) {}` won’t.
> >
> >But looking at step 8 in 
> >https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-runtime-semantics-forin-div-ofexpressionevaluation-abstract-operation
> > 
> ><https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-runtime-semantics-forin-div-ofexpressionevaluation-abstract-operation>,
> > when passing `null` to `GetIterator()`, it will throw a type error when the 
> >result of step 2 `CheckIterable(null)`, which is `undefind`, is called in 
> >step 3 in the algorithm for `GetIterator()`.
> >
> >Did I miss something or the current spec does throw an error?
> 
> To me since `IsCallable(undefined)` is `false`, so it throws an `TypeError`. 
> Traceur and V8 will both throw a `TypeError` saying that cannot read property 
> @@iterator from undefined or null, and Firefox throws a `TypeError` saying 
> that null have no property. So it should be an error.

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