Andreas Rossberg wrote:
On 29 September 2012 20:14, Rick Waldron<[email protected]> wrote:
Offline discussion with Dave that immediately identified a deal-breaker: if
typeof symbol were "string", it would break ===.
=== for strings is based on their contents
=== for objects is based on their identity
Well, that's clearly up to interpretation. Instead of having
"identity", you can just as well view symbols as something with unique
abstract "content". That is, I disagree that this alone is a
+1, I wasn't able to explain this, but I also had this on my mind.
deal-breaker of any kind.
But nevertheless, of course, using typeof symbol === "string" would be
bad for other reasons, some of which have been brought up in this
thread.
/Andreas
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