On 5 October 2012 14:26, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sounds good. As an aside, does the symbol in this case provide any function >> other than "wrapping" the string itself? Does the symbol carry any >> information that the string does not, from the point of view of the script? > > No, in this case the results of `Symbol.for` are just a duplicate of > the space of strings (just the way interned symbols are in Lisp).
Indeed, which is why I'm not sure I understand what this idea is trying to achieve. Is it more than just an ad hoc way to introduce a second namespace? /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
