# await using — await using with for await...of

> It's very easy to confuse the following three syntaxes for await (using x of y) { ...

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It's very easy to confuse the following three syntaxes

for await (using x of y) { ... } for (await using x of y) { ... } for (using x of await y) { ... }

It may be even more confusing to know that they can be used together.

First, await y does what you expect: we {{jsxref("Operators/await", "await")}} the promise y, which is expected to resolve to an object we iterate over. Let us set this variant aside.

The {{jsxref("Statements/for-await...of", "for await...of")}} loop requires the y object to be an _async iterable_. This means that the object must have a [Symbol.asyncIterator] method that returns an _async iterator_, whose next() method returns a promise representing the result. This is for when the iterable doesn't know what the next value is, or even if it's done yet, until some async operation is complete.

On the other hand, the await using x syntax requires the x object, as yielded from the iterable, to be an _async disposable_. This means that the object must have a [Symbol.asyncDispose] method that returns a promise representing the disposal operation. This is a separate concern from the iteration itself, and is only called when the variable x goes out of scope.

In other words, all of the following four combinations are valid and do different things

for (using x of y): y is synchronously iterated, yielding one result at a time, which can be disposed synchronously. for await (using x of y): y is asynchronously iterated, yielding one result at a time after awaiting, but the result value can be disposed synchronously. for (await using x of y): y is synchronously iterated, yielding one result at a time, but the result value can only be disposed asynchronously. for await (await using x of y): y is asynchronously iterated, yielding one result at a time after awaiting, and the result value can only be disposed asynchronously.

Below, we create some fictitious values of y to demonstrate their use cases. For asynchronous APIs, we base our code on the Node.js fs/promises module.

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