On May 15, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > On May 15, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >> On 5/15/11 2:20 PM, Rick Waldron wrote: >>> Thanks Brendan, I was looking for something that was representative of >>> Boris's use-case >> >> A typical example is an extension wanting to associate some state with a DOM >> element or a Window without polluting the DOM. For example, Adblock Plus >> wants to store some state per-element so that it knows when it's in the >> middle of unblocking something so it'll allow the load through for that one >> thing only. Firebug wants to store some state per-window (e.g. script >> bodies, etc) and discard it when the window goes away. > Which is a use case private names would achieve much more succinctly than > weakmaps.
Not if the object is frozen. Unless you then overspecify private names *as* weak maps, in which case we are going in circles :-P. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
