Using map() on an iterator

Question

Say we have a Map: let m = new Map();, using m.values() returns a map iterator.

But I can\'t use forEach() or map() o

Answer 1

You could retrieve an iterator over the iterable, then return another iterator that calls the mapping callback function on each iterated element.

const map = (iterable, callback) => {
  return {
    [Symbol.iterator]() {
      const iterator = iterable[Symbol.iterator]();
      return {
        next() {
          const r = iterator.next();
          if (r.done)
            return r;
          else {
            return {
              value: callback(r.value),
              done: false,
            };
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
};

// Arrays are iterable
console.log(...map([0, 1, 2, 3, 4], (num) => 2 * num)); // 0 2 4 6 8