yes, exactly. symbols themselves are, by design, *gen*sym. :) Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: Brendan Eich <[email protected]> To: David Herman <[email protected]> Cc: Brandon Benvie <[email protected]>, es-discuss discussion <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:47:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: On dropping @names David Herman wrote: > (That said, the generativity does worry me. It's a smell.) Just to be super-sure we grok one another, it's not the generativity by itself (since nested function declarations are the same, as I mentioned in the meeting). It is the generativity combined with the obj.@foo pun on Good Old obj.foo where 'foo' is a singleton identifier equated to a string property name. Right? /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
