On 30 September 2012 00:08, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is too philosophical a discussion to result in a strong reason > to risk "symbol". Just my gut-check. Other TC39ers should weigh in (Andreas > R. especially).
Type "symbol" would be my preference, but it is difficult to estimate (for me) whether that involves a risk. However, this clearly is an issue beyond symbols alone. The same problem re-arises whenever we have to add new primitive types in the future. It doesn't seem like a sustainable strategy to fake any new type ever into an object. Perhaps it is less harmful on the long run if we took the chance to clarify _now_ that the set of strings returned by 'typeof' is not fixed, and should not be treated as such? /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
