On 28 September 2012 18:28, Tom Van Cutsem <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that proxying a symbol is of little value, but I didn't say that > symbols are closer to strings than to objects. I think symbols are closer to > objects: they have an unforgeable identity. Strings don't have that, objects > do.
I don't follow how generative creation is synonym to "identity", nor how identity implies being an object. Should we make everything an object just because we can? For symbols in particular I completely fail to see a good reason for doing so (now that we are able to drop the "public" name property). It will just induce extra cost for dubious semantic value -- or actually, semantic cost, as the issue of proxying them indicates. /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
