Eh, the problem is how you have defined your code in {...}. It should work as expected, as you have said that it works in chrome's dev console. ( note, what you did is somewhat unusual use of the destructuring assignment but ... it's a nice thing to know why it doesn't work in repl! )
Apparently repl stops creating when you're using the ending curly brace, the }, thus executing the content defined within { and }. Let add your code step by step in repl and you will get an error when you add the } of your for-loop:
> {
... const str = 'Alice';
... let arr = [];
... for (let c of str) {
..... arr.push(c);
..... }
const str = 'Alice';
^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
So the code that the parser receives is
{
const str = 'Alice';
let arr = [];
for (let c of str) {
arr.push(c);
}
Which is of course not correct. If you re-write the code a bit, without having an ending } in the scope, then it works! Try this code
{
const str = 'Alice';
let arr = [];
for (let c of str) arr.push(c);
arr;
}
image:
This works. The problem may lie at how node repl treats the {} stuff.
UPDATE
I was intrigued, so checked this further. The problem is that repl starts to evaluate your statement once you have pressed after placing a } character. I have checked this and if you do the following:
{
const a = 'Alice';
let arr = [];
for (let c of a) {
arr.push(c);
} arr; }
Please note the use of two } in one line. You will get an answer;
> {
... const a = 'Alice';
... let arr = [];
... for (let c of a) {
..... arr.push(c);
..... } arr; }
[ 'A', 'l', 'i', 'c', 'e' ]
Congratulations. You have discovered a bug in node repl.
