Symbol could already be used by parsers and compilers. What about UniqueName?
-----Message d'origine----- De : Rick Waldron Envoyé : 01/08/2012 22:34 À : Mark S. Miller Cc : es-discuss Objet : Re: The Name of the Name On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote: I like it. +1. Symbol was on my short list but worried it was too similar to Name. It seems less likely to conflict with extant code, but not by much. +1 (but we can get weirder if we wanted to) Rick On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Kevin Reid <[email protected]> wrote: Lisp precedent: Objects which are used to name things (that is, they are used as keys by identity), and may be not globally-named themselves, are called symbols. On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Mark S. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: Now that we have both private Names and unique Names, the general category covering both is simply Names. Properties can therefore be indexed by strings or Names. Strings are the ones consisting of a sequence of characters that can typically be pronounced. Names are anonymous identities. In the real world, names and identities are distinct concepts, and names are the one corresponding to a unique sequence of characters that can be pronounced. Is "Name" exactly the wrong name for a opaque unique identity typically used to index a property? Is there a better term? -- Cheers, --MarkM _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss -- Cheers, --MarkM _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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