[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 183267] Web Inspector: Typing Symbol.next() causes iterator advancement

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183267

--- Comment #4 from Daniel Bates <dbates at webkit.org> ---
(In reply to Joseph Pecoraro from comment #1)
> Just autocomplete greedily evaluating functions. We should not do this in
> cases where there could be side-effects but generally it is useful to
> evaluate a function if there are no side-effects.
> 

This bug does not have as much to do with the general implementation strategy of autocomplete to greedily evaluating functions (*) as it does with the fact that this implementation throws away the result of the evaluation (**) such that it is not possible to ever see this result or operate on it.

(*) Though this strategy as it is currently implemented without saving and restoring program state or bookkeeping of intermediary results is problematic. How does Chrome DevTools accomplish autocompletion?

(**) Obviously we keep the type information of the result so as to provide autocompletion and suggestions.

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