Also, FWIW, the LTR version reads much more naturally to me. Happy about 
that change.

On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:42:40 AM UTC-4, jmar777 wrote:
>
> > Here are the notes from the meeting when this was discussed: 
> https://github.com/rwldrn/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-01/jan-31.md#comprehensionsgenerator-syntax
>
> Ahh, thanks for the clarification.  So, hopefully correct this time, the 
> previous example should have really been:
>
> [for (url of getURLs()) xhrGet(url)]
>
> ?
>
> On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7:38:56 PM UTC-4, Rick Waldron wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:13 AM, jmar777 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> > That for...of syntax is very nice, is it an official part of 
>>> ECMAScript 6?
>>>
>>> Yes, although it's not implemented in V8 just yet.  Once for-of and 
>>> generator-expressions are implemented, a lot of these operations will 
>>> become a lot nicer at the language level (rather than relying on cludgy 
>>> `suspend.map()` or whatever helpers).
>>>
>>> Here's an example from the ES6 Wiki [1]:
>>>
>>>     (xhrGet(url) for (url of getURLs())) // hawt
>>>
>>> [1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generator_expressions
>>>
>>
>> Caution!!!
>>
>> *"This proposal has progressed to the Draft ECMAScript 6 Specification, 
>> which is available for review here: specification_drafts. Any new issues 
>> relating to them should be filed as bugs at http://bugs.ecmascript.org. 
>> The content on this page is for historic record only and may no longer 
>> reflect the current state of the feature described within"*
>>  
>> I added this to every wiki proposal that is now in the spec—in this case, 
>> the generator expression syntax is backwards!
>>
>> In the spec draft...
>>
>> GeneratorComprehension : 
>>   ( Comprehension )
>>
>>
>> And Comprehension is defined in ArrayComprehension
>>
>> Comprehension : 
>>   ComprehensionFor ComprehensionQualifierTail
>>
>> ComprehensionQualifierTail : 
>>   AssignmentExpression
>>   ComprehensionQualifier ComprehensionQualifierTail
>>
>> ComprehensionQualifier : 
>>   ComprehensionFor
>>   ComprehensionIf 
>>
>> ComprehensionFor :
>>   for (ForBinding of AssignmentExpression ) 
>>
>> ComprehensionIf :
>>   if ( AssignmentExpression )
>>
>>  
>> ForBinding : 
>>   BindingIdentifier
>>   BindingPattern
>>
>>
>> Here are the notes from the meeting when this was discussed: 
>> https://github.com/rwldrn/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-01/jan-31.md#comprehensionsgenerator-syntax
>>
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 2:36:44 AM UTC-4, cpprototypes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The code sample I posted was a simplified example to demonstrate the 
>>>> issue.  The actual command line script I was working on uses the response 
>>>> from the get request for other things.  That for...of syntax is very nice, 
>>>> is it an official part of ECMAScript 6?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, July 12, 2013 2:47:28 PM UTC-7, cpprototypes wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using node 0.11.3 with --harmony-generators to try the new 
>>>>> feature.  I found two libraries that should help use existing node 
>>>>> callback-based code with generators (suspend and galaxy).  The code I'm 
>>>>> trying to run was similar to the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> (using suspend)
>>>>>
>>>>> var fs = require('fs');
>>>>> var request = require('request');
>>>>>
>>>>> suspend(function* (resume) {
>>>>>     var contents = yield fs.readFile('idList.json', 'utf8', resume);
>>>>>     contents.split('\n').forEach(**function(id) {
>>>>>         var info = yield 
>>>>> request.get('http://www.**example.com?id='+id<http://www.example.com?id='+id>,
>>>>>  
>>>>> resume);
>>>>>     });
>>>>> })();
>>>>>
>>>>> (using galaxy)
>>>>>
>>>>> var galaxy = require('galaxy');
>>>>> var fs = galaxy.star(require('fs'));
>>>>> var request = galaxy.star(require('request')**);
>>>>>
>>>>> function* main() {
>>>>>     var contents = yield fs.readFile('idList.json', 'utf8');
>>>>>     contents.split('\n').forEach(**function(id) {
>>>>>         var info = yield 
>>>>> request.get('http://www.**example.com?id='+id<http://www.example.com?id='+id>
>>>>> );
>>>>>     });
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> galaxy.unstar(main)(function(**err, result) {
>>>>>     console.log('done');
>>>>> });
>>>>>
>>>>> Using either library, when node tries to execute the get request ("var 
>>>>> info = yield request.get...") it exits with the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
>>>>>
>>>>> And the error highlights the "request" part in "var info = yield 
>>>>> request.get..."  I'm guessing that the creation of the new function scope 
>>>>> in the forEach is somehow causing an issue.  But I'm not sure why it's 
>>>>> not 
>>>>> working.  
>>>>>
>>>>>
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