gistfile1.js

// Assuming that for-of and proxies are available, this function will detect the
// version of for-of being used, and bind the std_iterator object.
//
// The return value will be one of:
//
// * 'old-spidermonkey' for currently deployed spidermonkey.  This code will call
//   y.iterator() on "for (x of y) ...", then call "next" on that iterator to yield
//   values until next() throws StopIteration.  When control exits the loop,
//   .close() is called on the iterator.
//
// * 'old-v8' for currently deployed v8 --harmony.  This is like ES6, except that
//   the RHS is expected to already be an iterator.  This V8 doesn't call @@iterator
//   on the RHS.
//
// * 'es6' for ES6 as currently specified (2013-09-05 draft).  This will call the
//   @@iterator method on the right-hand-side (RHS) of the for-of to produce an
//   iterator from an iterable.  Then next() will be called on that iterator, which
//   is expected to return objects of the form {value: foo, done: bool}.  If done is
//   false, foo will be bound to the iteration variable and the body will be
//   executed, and loop back.  When done is true, the loop exits.  Unlike
//   old-spidermonkey, .close() is never called on the iterator.
//
// The exact spelling of @@iterator is an issue.  It is specified to be a symbol in
// the std::iteration module, but no currently deployed engine implements ES6
// modules, and SM doesn't implement symbols.  So instead SpiderMonkey will use some
// placeholder string, but the precise spelling of that string should not be relied
// on by an application.  This code assumes that any key passed to the get handler
// of a proxy that is not 'iterator' or 'next' is actually the @@iterator symbol.
//
var std_iterator;
function DetectForOfKind() {
  try {
    for (var x of Proxy.create({get: function(obj, name) {
                                       switch (name) {
                                         case 'iterator': throw 'old-spidermonkey';
                                         case 'next': throw 'old-v8';
                                         default: std_iterator = name; throw 'es6';
                                       }
                                     }}))
      break;
    throw 'error';
  } catch (e) {
    return e;
  }
}

var for_of_kind = DetectForOfKind();

For the record, though we already chatted elsewhere: yep :)