We really need to be able to do for-of with arrays and node lists etc, without having to call .values() on it. It is such a common operation that we should not tax this further.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> wrote: > On Sun 09 Jun 2013 11:34, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendo...@gmail.com> > writes: > > > I think it's a mistake for iterators not to be iterable. > > I agree, FWIW. > > I think I would go farther and suggest that _only_ iterators be > iterable. That way, the RHS of a for-of is expected to be an iterator. > In the worst case you end up having: > > var a = [1, 2, 3, 4] > for (let x of values(a)) > ... > > instead of > > for (let x of a) > ... > > which to my eye is better anyway. Making an "itertools"-like library > difficult is a definite drawback of the current spec. > > Andy > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- erik
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