不要忘记使用非常有用的“x of generator”语法来遍历生成器。根本不需要使用next()函数。

function* square(x){
    for(i=0;i<100;i++){
        x = x * 2;
        yield x;        
    }   
}

var gen = square(2);
for(x of gen){
   console.log(x);
}

给出一个完整的答案:yield的工作原理类似于return，但在发电机中。

对于通常给出的例子，其工作原理如下:

function *squareGen(x) {
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < x; i++) {
        yield i*i;
    }
}

var gen = squareGen(3);

console.log(gen.next().value); // prints 0
console.log(gen.next().value); // prints 1
console.log(gen.next().value); // prints 4

但是yield关键字还有第二个用途。它可以用来向生成器发送值。

为了澄清，举个小例子:

function *sendStuff() {
    y = yield (0);
    yield y*y;
}

var gen = sendStuff();

console.log(gen.next().value); // prints 0
console.log(gen.next(2).value); // prints 4

它的工作原理是，将值2赋给y，在它停止在第一个yield(返回0)后将其发送给生成器。

这使我们能够看到一些非常时髦的东西。(查协程)

举个简单的例子:

const strArr = ["red", "green", "blue", "black"];

const strGen = function*() {
    for(let str of strArr) {
        yield str;
    }
};

let gen = strGen();

for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    console.log(gen.next())
}

//prints: {value: "red", done: false} -> 5 times with different colors, if you try it again as below:

console.log(gen.next());

//prints: {value: undefined, done: true}

在学习yield之前，您需要了解生成器。生成器是使用函数*语法创建的。Generator函数不执行代码，而是返回一种称为Generator的迭代器。当使用下一个方法给出一个值时，生成器函数将继续执行，直到遇到yield关键字。使用yield返回一个包含两个值的对象，一个是value，另一个是done(布尔值)。该值可以是数组、对象等。

在我看来，MDN文档非常好。

The function containing the yield keyword is a generator. When you call it, its formal parameters are bound to actual arguments, but its body isn't actually evaluated. Instead, a generator-iterator is returned. Each call to the generator-iterator's next() method performs another pass through the iterative algorithm. Each step's value is the value specified by the yield keyword. Think of yield as the generator-iterator version of return, indicating the boundary between each iteration of the algorithm. Each time you call next(), the generator code resumes from the statement following the yield.

Yield还可以使用协程框架来消除回调地狱。

function start(routine, data) {
    result = routine.next(data);
    if(!result.done) {
        result.value(function(err, data) {
            if(err) routine.throw(err); // continue next iteration of routine with an exception
            else start(routine, data);  // continue next iteration of routine normally
        });
    }
}

// with nodejs as 'node --harmony'
fs = require('fs');
function read(path) {
    return function(callback) { fs.readFile(path, {encoding:'utf8'}, callback); };
}

function* routine() {
    text = yield read('/path/to/some/file.txt');
    console.log(text);
}

// with mdn javascript 1.7
http.get = function(url) {
    return function(callback) { 
        // make xhr request object, 
        // use callback(null, resonseText) on status 200,
        // or callback(responseText) on status 500
    };
};

function* routine() {
    text = yield http.get('/path/to/some/file.txt');
    console.log(text);
}

// invoked as.., on both mdn and nodejs

start(routine());