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// Deliberately permissive (but fast) conversion from utf8 buffer to codepoint
// array. Invalid multibyte codepoint sequences become replacement character and
// orphaned surrogates are expressly permitted.
//
// The speed is almost identical to the built-in TextDecoder; however, it yields
// an array of codepoints, rather than a string. When compared as ways to get
// codepoints (e.g. by following TextDecoder.end with map), this runs fourteen
// times faster (not because TextDecoder is slow, but because x.from(str, map)
// is — not sure what accounts for such a big difference, though it only reaches
// those extremes on large files).

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// Typically "debouncing" means limiting execution frequency by a specific
// interval while still guaranteeing that, after a call, the behavior will still
// execute (just not synchronously; the relationship is many->one for "calls" to
// "executions"). However it is sometimes desireable to not limit by a specific
// time — you may just want to prevent something from recurring concurrently,
// without concern for overall frequency. In these cases, you may instead want
// to debounce "against" promises. This function accepts a method that returns a
// promise and returns a new function that will execute that method immediately
// only when the last execution’s promise remains unresolved, and otherwise will
// queue for re-execution (once) when the current execution is complete. In all

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When Strings Attack

The Enduring Legacy of a Very Naughty Hack from 1995 / A Bit of Intl

This is my first attempt at a tech talk thing. The focus here is strings in ES. First we’ll talk about what a string is in ES, then some of the consequences that fall out of that (a few aren’t super obvious), and finally some of the cool tools available for working with strings safely & effectively. Because of the nature of the subject we’ll also get into some more general information about Unicode, encodings and broad concepts related to strings and language.

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FK	Cstr	TM: Lexical	TM: Global / Strict
normal	cstr	-	function() {}; new Function
normal	no	() => {}	x() {}
classConstructor	cstr	-	class {}
classConstructor	no	-	-
generator	cstr	-	-
generator	no	-	function * () {}; * x() {}
async	cstr	-	-
async	no	async () => {}	async function() {}; async x() {}

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void async function() {
  const asyncGenerator = async function *() { try { yield; } catch {} }();

  try {
    for await (const value of asyncGenerator) {
      await asyncGenerator.throw(new Error);
    }

    console.log('caught');
  } catch {

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import range from '/util/iterator/range.mjs';

// Week start data pulled from similarly golfed answer on SO:
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/57102881/1631952
//
// I’m not thrilled with this; we probably ought to be generating it since the
// data is pretty obscure. OTOH I’d be far less thrilled with loading hefty
// chunks of ICU data and this is pretty solid and compact!
//
// Note that the RegExp given for lang tags in that answer is a bit off. The one

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Trying to understand what accounts for "\8" and "\9" being considered valid string literals with identity escapes in Chrome and FF.

Annex B permits sloppy mode to include legacy octal escapes in strings. It achieves this by replacing the ‘normal’ (strict) EscapeSequence production with a new version accompanied by three new productions.

• Strict: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#prod-EscapeSequence
• Sloppy: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#prod-annexB-EscapeSequence

In the sloppy version, three of the alternatives are the same. The change is replacing this rule:

"0" [lookahead ∉ DecimalDigit]

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class Foo extends Bar {
  method() {
    const homeObject = Foo.prototype;
    const superReferenceBase = Object.getPrototypeOf(homeObject);
  }

  static method() {
    const homeObject = Foo;
    const superReferenceBase = Object.getPrototypeOf(homeObject);
  }

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function matchAllButUpdateOriginalRegExp(regExp, string) {
  return regExp[Symbol.matchAll].call({
    constructor: { [Symbol.species]: function() { return regExp; } },
    flags: regExp.flags,
    lastIndex: regExp.lastIndex
  }, string);
}

const pattern = /./g;

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export default function acornSkullFishKoalaCaressingAndNonstopSpinalDraining(Parser) {
  const tt = Parser.acorn.tokTypes;
  const ocToken = new Parser.acorn.TokenType('?.');
  const ncToken = new Parser.acorn.TokenType('??', {
    beforeExpr: true,
    binop: 2.5
  });

  return class extends Parser {
    getTokenFromCode(codePoint) {