# Deprecated and obsolete features — Legacy generator and iterator

> Legacy generator function statements and legacy generator function expressions are removed.

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Legacy generator function statements and legacy generator function expressions are removed. The legacy generator function syntax reuses the function keyword, which automatically becomes a generator function when there are one or more yield expressions in the body — this is now a syntax error. Use function statements and function expressions instead.

Array comprehensions and generator comprehensions are removed.

Firefox, prior to version 26, implemented another iterator protocol that is similar to the standard Iterator protocol. An object is a legacy iterator when it implements a next() method, which produces a value on each call and throws a StopIteration object at the end of iteration. This legacy iterator protocol differs from the standard iterator protocol

The value was returned directly as the return value of calls to next(), instead of the value property of the IteratorResult object. Iteration termination was expressed by throwing a StopIteration object, instead of through the done property of the IteratorResult object.

This feature, along with the StopIteration global constructor, was removed in Firefox 58+. For future-facing usages, consider using for...of loops and the iterator protocol.

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