Re: The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-04-06 Thread Brendan Eich
Axel Rauschmayer wrote: There are two different aspects: 1. If you get an iterable, it sometimes matters whether iteration restarts when you ask the iterable for an iterator. Rather, if you have an object o and o[Symbol.iterator]() === o then you have an iterator. 2. Self-iterability is ho

Re: The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-04-06 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
There are two different aspects: 1. If you get an iterable, it sometimes matters whether iteration restarts when you ask the iterable for an iterator. 2. Self-iterability is how iterators turn themselves into iterables so that constructs that work with iterables can be used. It also enables gene

Re: The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-04-06 Thread Dmitry Soshnikov
Exactly, that's what I tried to explain. Since in one case it considers just an iterable (an array), and in other case -- an iterator (which is by "coincidence" is also an iterable). But an array's iterator is an iterable as well, and also always returns itself for iterator protocol. Yeah, the "se

Re: The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-04-06 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
> On Apr 6, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Dmitry Soshnikov > wrote: > > I guess all built-in iterators return themselves for `Symbol.iterator` > protocol. So they are all "singletons". I described in detail where > confusion/substitution of concepts happens in that analysis in the recent two > comments.

Re: The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-04-06 Thread Dmitry Soshnikov
gist. >> >> Dmitry >> >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Axel Rauschmayer >> wrote: >> >>> FWIW: I have written down my understanding of the ES6 iteration protocol >>> (shaped by discussions I had on this mailing list). >&

Re: The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-04-06 Thread joe
, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Axel Rauschmayer > wrote: > >> FWIW: I have written down my understanding of the ES6 iteration protocol >> (shaped by discussions I had on this mailing list). >> >> https://gist.github.com/rauschma/73e5f86a595b77

Re: The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-03-29 Thread Dmitry Soshnikov
Good write up, although "fresh vs singleton" topic doesn't make sense, and doesn't reflect the spec. I responded on the gist. Dmitry On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: > FWIW: I have written down my understanding of the ES6 iteration protocol >

The ES6 iteration protocol

2015-03-28 Thread Axel Rauschmayer
FWIW: I have written down my understanding of the ES6 iteration protocol (shaped by discussions I had on this mailing list). https://gist.github.com/rauschma/73e5f86a595b7709f39e -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de rauschma.de ___ es-discuss