Brendan Eich (2013-09-16T16:38:34.000Z)
Claude, thanks for answering, one correction at bottom:
> Claude Pache <mailto:claude.pache at gmail.com>
> September 16, 2013 11:42 AM
> I suggest:
>
> [ ... mySet ]
>
> or, if you don't want to use any new syntax:
>
> Array.from(mySet)
>
> —Claude
>
> P.S. The syntax  `[e for e of mySet]` is outdated in Harmony, you 
> should use `[(for let e of mySet) e]`.

No, the new syntax is [for (e of mySet) e] -- no let and parens in the 
same place as in the for-of/in loop statements.

/be

>
> Le 16 sept. 2013 à 17:33, Angus Croll <anguscroll at gmail.com 
> <mailto:anguscroll at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>> I'm trying to figure out the most painless way, given a set, to 
>> return the set's values as an array.
>>
>> Possibilities:
>> 1) harmony wiki 
>> (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:iterators&s=iterator 
>> <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:iterators&s=iterator>) suggests 
>> the following, but it is a syntax error in traceur, continuum and 
>> "node --harmony"
>>
>> let arr = [e for e of mySet];
>>
>> 2)The ES6 standard supports the following production (i.e. 
>> expression, not var, before 'for'):
>> /IterationStatement : for ( LeftHandSideExpression of 
>> AssignmentExpression ) Statement/
>> (see 
>> http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-13.6.4.2 
>> <http://people.mozilla.org/%7Ejorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-13.6.4.2>)
>>
>> which suggests I should be able to do this:
>> let arr = [];
>> for (arr[arr.length-1] of mySet);
>>
>> (I can do the equivalent with for-in) but that also errors in the 
>> above three transpilers
>>
>> 3) So then I'm left with the pedestrian:
>> let arr = [];
>> for (e of mySet) {
>>   arr.push(e);
>> }
>>
>> 4) I also wondered ifArray.from(mySet) would do the trick but again 
>> doesn't seem to pass muster with any of the above transpilers. 
>> (continuum  returns a zero length array and the other two don't know 
>> Array.from)
>>
>> Wondering if I'm missing something better.
>> thanks
>>
>> Angus
>> @angustweets
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> Angus Croll <mailto:anguscroll at gmail.com>
> September 16, 2013 11:33 AM
> I'm trying to figure out the most painless way, given a set, to return 
> the set's values as an array.
>
> Possibilities:
> 1) harmony wiki 
> (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:iterators&s=iterator 
> <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:iterators&s=iterator>) 
> suggests the following, but it is a syntax error in traceur, continuum 
> and "node --harmony"
>
> let arr = [e for e of mySet];
>
> 2)The ES6 standard supports the following production (i.e. expression, 
> not var, before 'for'):
> /IterationStatement : for ( LeftHandSideExpression of 
> AssignmentExpression ) Statement/
> (see http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-13.6.4.2 
> <http://people.mozilla.org/%7Ejorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-13.6.4.2>)
>
> which suggests I should be able to do this:
> let arr = [];
> for (arr[arr.length-1] of mySet);
>
> (I can do the equivalent with for-in) but that also errors in the 
> above three transpilers
>
> 3) So then I'm left with the pedestrian:
> let arr = [];
> for (e of mySet) {
>   arr.push(e);
> }
>
> 4) I also wondered ifArray.from(mySet) would do the trick but again 
> doesn't seem to pass muster with any of the above transpilers. 
> (continuum  returns a zero length array and the other two don't know 
> Array.from)
>
> Wondering if I'm missing something better.
> thanks
>
> Angus
> @angustweets
> _______________________________________________
> es-discuss mailing list
> es-discuss at mozilla.org
> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-09-25T02:34:05.165Z)
Claude, thanks for answering, one correction at bottom:

Claude Pache <mailto:claude.pache at gmail.com> September 16, 2013 11:42 AM

> P.S. The syntax  `[e for e of mySet]` is outdated in Harmony, you should use `[(for let e of mySet) e]`.

No, the new syntax is `[for (e of mySet) e]` -- no `let` and parens in the same place as in the for-of/in loop statements.