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

[Michael Theriot]

There are many things I still don't understand about iterators...

```js
var iter = [].values();
iter[Symbol.iterator]() === iter;

var weirdFunction = iter[Symbol.iterator];
weirdFunction.call(iter) === iter;

var weirdInstance = new weirdFunction(); // what is this??
```


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:19 AM, John Lenz <concavelenz at gmail.com> wrote:

> This seems ripe for misuse:  you don't want two "owners" for the same
> iterator calling "next" and normally, without the Iterator interface
> implementation, you would expect "iterator()" to always return an instance
> of the iterator that the caller "owned".
>
> Can anyone provide any historical context on why this method was added to
> the "iterator"?
>
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