Or I guess to clarify, I don't understand what the distinction is between a private symbol and a unique symbol if unique symbols don't show up anywhere. So I jumped to the assumption that they did show up in gOPN based on what I read.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Brandon Benvie <[email protected]>wrote: > Ah I guess I misread what was said back in the July meeting and then > misinterpreted the recent discussion in that framing. The recent discussion > I'm referring to is at and around > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-November/026536.html > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Brandon Benvie wrote: >> >>> By design, private symbols can only be used if you have direct access to >>> them in some way. >>> >> >> Right. >> >> >> Public symbols should show up in getOwnPropertyNames (if I have followed >>> recent discussion correctly). >>> >> >> I don't recall this, and it's an incompatible change from ES5. Can you >> link to an es-discuss message on it? >> >> >> The fact that private symbols must be explicitly passed around to gain >>> access to them is their primary feature. >>> >> >> Yup. >> >> /be >> > >
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