Thank you for sharing the intent with blink-dev!

Does it mean that you also intend to ship @@iterator methods (unclear from
your post)?

How much of an effort is implementing the late specification addition? A
complete implementation is preferred. Can the lack of it be feature
detected quickly (throwing is not very nice to feature detect)?


☆*PhistucK*


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Andy Wingo <[email protected]> wrote:

> For-of ("for (x of iterable) {}") is a part of ES6 [1].
>
> For-of has been shipping in Firefox since version 27 (February 2014)
> [2].  IE and Safari developers have both shown willingness to implement
> this part of the new language standard.
>
> V8 has had for-of since June 2013, under the --harmony-iteration flag.
> It was recently changed to perform GetIterator [3] on the iterable, in
> conformance with the draft standard.
>
> At the same time, we are looking to ship standard @@iterator methods for
> arrays [4] and strings [5], so that one can iterate over arrays and
> strings natively:
>
>   for (var x of [1,2,3]) console.log(x);
>
> These @@iterator implementations make use of the new ES6 symbol facility
> (also shipping in M38).
>
> V8's for-of implementation is complete with respect to the current draft
> standard, except for the late spec addition that causes for-of to "shut
> down" the iterator on early exit (via break or throw) [6].  We don't
> anticipate problems adding this functionality later, as it relies on the
> iterator having an optional "close" method, which no iterators have
> currently.
>
> Owners: [email protected], [email protected]
>
> [1]
> http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-for-in-and-for-of-statements
> [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/27#JavaScript
> [3] http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-getiterator
> [4]
> http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-string-iterator-objects
> [5]
> http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-array-iterator-objects
> [6] http://esdiscuss.org/notes/2014-06-05#closing-iterators
>
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