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Re:ES6 generators in depth by callum85 on Monday March 30, 2015 @01:29PM (#9291041)
This can't be about backwards compatibility. If it was, they wouldn't have been able to add 'yield, 'await' etc.

I don't agree the keyword "generator" would have been ideal. It wouldn't work when using 'enhanced object literals' [1], where you can declare a method without even using the keyword "function". In this case, if you want the method to be a generator, you can just put an asterisk in front of its name, so it's consistent with the "function*" syntax.

[1] https://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es6/#enhanced-object-literals

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Re:ES6 generators in depth by tlrobinson on Monday March 30, 2015 @01:54PM (#9291252)
FYI, "yield" has been a reserved word since ES5 and "await" is becoming reserved in ES6 (for eventual use in ES7): https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/reserved-keywords

It seems like a word must be reserved for at least one ES version prior to it being used.

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