You mean to say you *don't* have
```js
var undefined = [].forEach(Array.prototype.forEach.call);
```
at the top of every file!?
On Friday, 16 October 2015, Niloy Mondal <niloy.monda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That'd be a compatibility break.
>
> Ugh... you mean people actually depend on `forEach` returning `undefined`
> (which it always does) to do further task?
>
> I wonder what that kinda code would look like >.<
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Frankie Bagnardi <f.bagna...@gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','f.bagna...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> That'd be a compatibility break.
>>
>> If we end up getting :: though:
>>
>> ```js
>> function logEach(){
>> this.forEach((x) => console.log(x));
>> return this;
>> }
>>
>>
>> const a = [1, 2, 3]
>> .map(square)
>> ::logEach()
>> .map(plus1)
>> .reduce(add);
>> ```
>>
>> You could make that a global variable so you can sprinkle it around your
>> code in development.
>>
>> Having some developer tools in the language would be nice though. I don't
>> even think console.log is in the spec. A global like Debug.logThis for
>> example would be a more general ::-able.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
>> andrea.giammar...@gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','andrea.giammar...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> ```js
>>> const a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> .map(square)
>>> .map(x => console.log(x) || x )
>>> .map(plus1)
>>> .reduce(add);
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Niloy Mondal <niloy.monda...@gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','niloy.monda...@gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Currently, `Array.prototype.forEach` returns `undefined`. It would be
>>>> more
>>>> useful if it returns the array itself.
>>>>
>>>> Say I have written some code like this...
>>>>
>>>> ```js
>>>> const a = [1, 2, 3]
>>>> .map(square)
>>>> .map(plus1)
>>>> .reduce(add);
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, I am not getting the expected output. For debugging, I
>>>> would
>>>> like the print the values after each step. My first initial reaction is
>>>> to
>>>> put a `forEach` step in between and print the values like so...
>>>>
>>>> ```js
>>>> const a = [1, 2, 3]
>>>> .map(square)
>>>> .forEach(x => console.log(x))
>>>> .map(plus1)
>>>> .reduce(add);
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, this does not work as `forEach` returns `undefined`. I
>>>> now have
>>>> to comment out all the code below it. Having the _plug and play_
>>>> behaviour for
>>>> `forEach` would be very convenient.
>>>>
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