Error on Yield "*" (star, asterisk)

[JoshMayberry]

If you yield the string "*", it will throw the following error: "E021 Expected '*' and instead saw '*'".

Example Code that would throw the error:

x = Array.from(function*() {
	yield "@";
	yield "*"; // This line
	yield "#";
}());

[jugglinmike]

Confirmed. Here are a few workarounds you can use until this gets fixed:

function * g() {
  yield ('*');
}

function * g() {
  yield '* '[0];
}

function * g() {
  const star = '*';
  yield star;
}

This is due to an unfortunate symmetry in JSHint between tokens for literals and tokens for other terminals. We have to take extra care to specify which one of those two things we're talking about, and in this case, we failed to do that.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to file a report!