On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Erik Corry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On May 15, 2011 2:55 AM, "Boris Zbarsky" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 5/14/11 6:37 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > >> > >> Can you provide a use case where you have an object key as the usual > programming idiom? > > > > > > Attaching metadata to object without polluting the objects themselves. > > That sounds more like private names > Private name and soft field lookup inherits. WeakMap lookup doesn't. > > > > For example, Firefox extensions want to do this all the time for various > DOM objects (and especially Window). > > > > -Boris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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