On May 16, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > On May 16, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: >> WeakMaps satisfy this more general non-enumerable object-keyed cache >> use-case well, too -- at least as far as I can tell. We'll be building on >> the Firefox nightly implementation to find out more. > > I think my problem with this is that WeakMap to me imply something other than > what is being specified. What is being specified here is essentially a > non-enumerable strong map,
No, not strong -- conditionally strong or weak. If you want to pick on the name for imprecision, you have to be more precise. That's the first rule of weakmap-club. > not a weakmap in the sense that i have ever known it. I believe you are still thinking of weak references or weak pointers. Can you link to an example of what you mean? /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
