Code smell? Iterator prototype has iterator method that returns "this"

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 7/25/16 11:19 AM, John Lenz wrote:
> Can anyone provide any historical context on why this method was added
> to the "iterator"?

The idea is that you can do this:

   for (var something of myarray.entries())

and similar for other iterator-returning methods.  The way for-of works 
is that it will try to call iterator() on the thing to the right of the 
"of", which in this case is an Iterator instance.

-Boris