-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Rossberg Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 14:46
> 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? Yes, is this noticeably better than just saying "use '__space_of_strings_<string>'"? What does this new API accomplish that can't already be done with a conventional prefix in the normal space of strings? _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
