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0 pointschrismorgan5y ago0 comments

That’s more about [@@iterator] not being a thing on IE11 rather than anything about Map. There’s still Map.prototype.forEach, which is entirely sufficient.

Also, iteration is not the only purpose of Map; its real value is that you can use keys of any type, and I’ve used Map and WeakMap a number of times without having needed any form of iteration—e.g. avoiding polluting every element I need to track data on (MY_DATA: Symbol; Element[MY_DATA]: MyData), maintaining a WeakMap<Element, MyData> instead.

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z3t45y ago

One thing I like about JS is that you can monkeypatch anything. And if you want all objects of any type to have the property/method you just add it to the prototype.

chrismorganOP5y ago

Except that really doesn’t pan out well here: it’s not just one or two things that need patching, it’s a lot, and the patching will slow some extremely common operations down quite a bit (sometimes immensely), and it’ll still be incomplete because there are syntax elements to it (e.g. for..of) that can’t be polyfilled.

Thus, for as long as you want to support a certain vintage of browser, you’re very commonly better to just write things in the old way—which here means using Map.prototype.forEach instead of Map.prototype.{entries, keys, values} and/or for..of loops.

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z3t45y ago

One thing I like about JS is that you can monkeypatch anything. And if you want all objects of any type to have the property/method you just add it to the prototype.

chrismorganOP5y ago

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