Kevin is right; I think the equivalence you're looking for is:

var arrayIter = [1, 2, ..., n][Symbol.iterator](); var genIter = (function*()
{ yield 1; yield 2; ... yield n; })();


On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 2:31 PM Kevin Smith <zenparsing at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you use yield instead of return in your generator function you'll get
> the desired results.  When using a generator function to implement
> iteration, you'll generally want to avoid returning a final value, since
> for-of ignores the return value.
>
> The return value does have an important role to play in coroutine-style
> use cases.
>
> On 2:20PM, Tue, Jun 30, 2015 Tim Jansen <ml at tjansen.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on a collections library that supports the Iterable/Iterator
>> protocol, but I ran into a stumbling block: the iterator protocol seems to
>> work differently for arrays and generator functions. Array iterators set
>> 'done' to true *after* the last element, but function generators set 'done'
>> to true *on* the last element.
>>
>> Is this incompatibility intentional, or or just an implementation issue
>> in the browsers (tested on FF38 and Chrome 43)? I wasn't able to find any
>> information on this. The ES6 draft from April '15 doesn't define when
>> exactly 'done' is set.
>>
>>
>> Code example:
>>
>> var a = ['a', 'b'];
>>
>> var itA = a[Symbol.iterator];
>>
>> itA.next();   // {value: 'a', done: false}
>>
>> itA.next();   // {value: 'b', done: false} !!
>>
>> itA.next();   // {value: undefined, done: true}
>>
>>
>> function* b() {
>>
>>   yield 'a';
>>
>>   return 'b';
>>
>> }
>>
>> var itB = a[Symbol.iterator];
>>
>> itB.next();   // {value: 'a', done: false}
>>
>> itB.next();   // {value: 'b', done: true} !!!
>>
>> itB.next();   // {value: undefined, done: true}
>>
>> The difference is in the second invocation of next(), which returns true
>> for generator functions. That protocol makes it impossible for me to
>> support both generator functions and array iterators with the same
>> implementation - at least if I want to support 'undefined' as a valid value
>> in collections. I wouldn't be able to differentiate between an empty list
>> ([]) and a list containing undefined ([undefined]).
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
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Kevin is right; I think the equivalence you're looking for is:

```js
var arrayIter = [1, 2, ..., n][Symbol.iterator]();
var genIter = (function*() { yield 1; yield 2; ... yield n; })();
```