Chrome DevTools: what's this arrow(<-) meaning?

Question

I am confuse about this symbol (<-) in Chrome DevTools

It's return value or console value?

When I run this while loop

var i = 0;
while (i < 5) {
    console.log(i);
    i++;
}

the console log spits out 4 twice, the last 4 have a (<-) in a front, what's meaning?

Answer 1

This has to do with the nature of the eval function. Note that:

var i = 0, j = while(i < 5) { i++; };

Produces a compile error. However,

var i = 0, j = eval('while(i < 5) { i++; }');

Assigns the value 4 to j. Why is this? Quoting from MDN:

eval() returns the value of the last expression evaluated.

So in short, it evaluates all the calls to console.log in your expression, then also logs the return value from the eval-ed expression itself, which just happens to be the result of the last i++.