ECMAScript® 2024 Language Specification

Draft ECMA-262 / February 15, 2024

27.4 AsyncGeneratorFunction Objects

AsyncGeneratorFunctions are functions that are usually created by evaluating AsyncGeneratorDeclaration, AsyncGeneratorExpression, and AsyncGeneratorMethod syntactic productions. They may also be created by calling the %AsyncGeneratorFunction% intrinsic.

27.4.1 The AsyncGeneratorFunction Constructor

The AsyncGeneratorFunction constructor:

  • is %AsyncGeneratorFunction%.
  • is a subclass of Function.
  • creates and initializes a new AsyncGeneratorFunction when called as a function rather than as a constructor. Thus the function call AsyncGeneratorFunction (...) is equivalent to the object creation expression new AsyncGeneratorFunction (...) with the same arguments.
  • may be used as the value of an extends clause of a class definition. Subclass constructors that intend to inherit the specified AsyncGeneratorFunction behaviour must include a super call to the AsyncGeneratorFunction constructor to create and initialize subclass instances with the internal slots necessary for built-in AsyncGeneratorFunction behaviour. All ECMAScript syntactic forms for defining async generator function objects create direct instances of AsyncGeneratorFunction. There is no syntactic means to create instances of AsyncGeneratorFunction subclasses.

27.4.1.1 AsyncGeneratorFunction ( ...parameterArgs, bodyArg )

The last argument (if any) specifies the body (executable code) of an async generator function; any preceding arguments specify formal parameters.

This function performs the following steps when called:

  1. Let C be the active function object.
  2. If bodyArg is not present, set bodyArg to the empty String.
  3. Return ? CreateDynamicFunction(C, NewTarget, async-generator, parameterArgs, bodyArg).
 Note

See NOTE for 20.2.1.1.

27.4.2 Properties of the AsyncGeneratorFunction Constructor

The AsyncGeneratorFunction constructor:

  • is a standard built-in function object that inherits from the Function constructor.
  • has a [[Prototype]] internal slot whose value is %Function%.
  • has a "length" property whose value is 1𝔽.
  • has a "name" property whose value is "AsyncGeneratorFunction".
  • has the following properties:

27.4.2.1 AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype

The initial value of AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype is the AsyncGeneratorFunction prototype object.

This property has the attributes { [[Writable]]: false, [[Enumerable]]: false, [[Configurable]]: false }.

27.4.3 Properties of the AsyncGeneratorFunction Prototype Object

The AsyncGeneratorFunction prototype object:

27.4.3.1 AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype.constructor

The initial value of AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype.constructor is %AsyncGeneratorFunction%.

This property has the attributes { [[Writable]]: false, [[Enumerable]]: false, [[Configurable]]: true }.

27.4.3.2 AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype.prototype

The initial value of AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype.prototype is the AsyncGenerator prototype object.

This property has the attributes { [[Writable]]: false, [[Enumerable]]: false, [[Configurable]]: true }.

27.4.3.3 AsyncGeneratorFunction.prototype [ @@toStringTag ]

The initial value of the @@toStringTag property is the String value "AsyncGeneratorFunction".

This property has the attributes { [[Writable]]: false, [[Enumerable]]: false, [[Configurable]]: true }.

27.4.4 AsyncGeneratorFunction Instances

Every AsyncGeneratorFunction instance is an ECMAScript function object and has the internal slots listed in Table 30. The value of the [[IsClassConstructor]] internal slot for all such instances is false.

Each AsyncGeneratorFunction instance has the following own properties:

27.4.4.1 length

The value of the "length" property is an integral Number that indicates the typical number of arguments expected by the AsyncGeneratorFunction. However, the language permits the function to be invoked with some other number of arguments. The behaviour of an AsyncGeneratorFunction when invoked on a number of arguments other than the number specified by its "length" property depends on the function.

This property has the attributes { [[Writable]]: false, [[Enumerable]]: false, [[Configurable]]: true }.

27.4.4.2 name

The specification for the "name" property of Function instances given in 20.2.4.2 also applies to AsyncGeneratorFunction instances.

27.4.4.3 prototype

Whenever an AsyncGeneratorFunction instance is created, another ordinary object is also created and is the initial value of the async generator function's "prototype" property. The value of the prototype property is used to initialize the [[Prototype]] internal slot of a newly created AsyncGenerator when the generator function object is invoked using [[Call]].

This property has the attributes { [[Writable]]: true, [[Enumerable]]: false, [[Configurable]]: false }.

Note

Unlike function instances, the object that is the value of an AsyncGeneratorFunction's "prototype" property does not have a "constructor" property whose value is the AsyncGeneratorFunction instance.