On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dean Landolt wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> It might be useful to expose this functionality with a more >> obvious >> name, to underscore that you lose the secrecy/unforgability. >> Symbol.public()? >> >> >> We are mooting public as the keyword for non-private but unique >> symbols, so that's ambiguous. ReallyPublic? :-P We want to capture >> the singleton sharing, and 'intern' is the jargon word to use. For >> the jargon-disabled, I'm not sure what to use, but perhaps >> teaching people about intern'ing is better than using some long >> Java-esque name. >> >> >> >> Maybe Symbol.namespace('iterator') to communicate that you're referencing >> the global System namespace pool. Anyone can easily roll their own >> namespace pools too. >> > > Urgh, namespace is misleading, it suggests Common Lisp's symbol packages, > the AS3/ES4 namespaces, XML namespaces. Here, @iterator is not a prefix or > part of a pair, or set-of-symbols. It's just a symbol you can find from a > string. I admit the historical baggage may be too much to shake but what we're talking about here is quite precisely a namespace :)
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