On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Angus Croll <anguscroll at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out the most painless way, given a set, to return the
> set's values as an array.
>


set.values(); // An array of the set's values



>
> Possibilities:
> 1) harmony wiki (
> 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];
>

Just a heads up, that wiki page is out of date (see the notice at the top
of the page) and shows the old syntax (as shown above). The up-to-date
syntax is:

let arr = [for (e of mySet) e];

(I realize this is beside the point of the question)

Rick



>
> 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)
>
> 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 if Array.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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On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Angus Croll <anguscroll at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out the most painless way, given a set, to return the
> set's values as an array.

```js
set.values(); // An array of the set's values
```

> Possibilities:
> 1. harmony wiki (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:iterators)
> suggests the following, but it is a syntax error in traceur, continuum and
> "node --harmony"
>
> ```js
> let arr = [e for e of mySet];
> ```

Just a heads up, that wiki page is out of date (see the notice at the top
of the page) and shows the old syntax (as shown above). The up-to-date
syntax is:

```js
let arr = [for (e of mySet) e];
```

(I realize this is beside the point of the question)