Symbol is not bad. I think people could use it for similar purposes as Ruby's symbols, but it might get a little confusing at the differences - not that it should stop us if we like the word.
Some other ideas: Key, Signature (unforgeable), Token, Privilege - Russ On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:06 PM, François REMY <[email protected]>wrote: > Symbol could already be used by parsers and compilers. What about > UniqueName? > ------------------------------ > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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