Authors: Sergey Rubanov
Champion: Hemanth HM, Brendan Eich (?)
Stage: Stage 1 of the TC39 process.
Experience so far has been that people love arrow functions and generators and want a generator arrow. — Brendan Eich
Both arrow functions and generators are available since ES2015. Often people want to use generator arrow and this proposal (which was raised years ago) should solve their needs.
Discussion of future syntax: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-generator-arrow-functions/issues/2
// Irregular
() =*> ...
// not the same order as in regular generator functions
() =>* ...
// also wrong order
() *=> ...
// ASI hazard
*() => ...
generator
keyword for both function
and arrow functiongenerator function() {}
const foo = async generator function() {};
class Foo {
x = 1
// No more ASI hazard!
generator foo() {}
}