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Discussion on: Generators in Javascript: How to use them

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Tasso Evangelista

Hmmm, I haven't wondered it! It surely restricts a little what you can express in code, but I not sure about what is lost.

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Tylor Steinberger

Thankfully it shouldn't! There are still yields happening under the hood, but in Generator<Yield, Return, Next>, Next is the return value of individual yields which there can be many (source of the issue is they must be a product type A & B), while Return is the value returned when .next() returns done:true, and since there is only 1 value there we don't have to worry about the same typing complexities.

It's very easy to convert from one to the other. function*(thing) { const x = yield thing; return x}