yield and new : SpiderMonkey and the draft Spec

[Brendan Eich]

Sorry, this is both foolish consistency and a boilerplate tax on users. Worse, it removes a special form (syntax dedicated to a new primitive) that implementations need to parse, in order to compile and optimize the function using the primitive. We are not going to add a Generator constructor.

/be


On Mar 15, 2011, at 1:16 PM, "John J. Barton" <johnjbarton at johnjbarton.com> wrote:

> On 11:59 AM, David Herman wrote:
>>> P.S.:
>>> 
>>> A small change, e.g. can be to make next as a getter since it doesn't accept arguments.
>>> 
>>> g.next; // 1
>>> g.next; // 2
>>> 
>>> But, it's a cosmetic and actually not so needed change.
>> -1
>> 
>> The purpose of the next interface is to change the state of the iterator. A getter interface obscures the statefulness.
> Yes! An API inconsistent with the rest of the language makes programming more difficult. The implicit constructor for generators obscures the nature of the generator object: same principle.
> 
> jjb
> 
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