David Bruant wrote:
ooooooohh.... Yes it does. I hadn't thought of WeakMaps for the
private syntax.
Sounds good then.
Another point Mark and Tom made that I found helpful:
The traditional GC-costly WeakMap implementation, which handles cases
where the map and its keys' lifetimes are not related in any particular
way, to perform cycle collection treating each key/value entry as an
Ephemeron, is not required for private-in-class. So long as the class
lives, its private names must work. Instances keep their class alive;
new instances may be created even if old ones were all GC'ed. Symbols
are no more leaky that WeakMaps in this setting.
This means that private-in-class names can be per-class as Mark showed,
but more: the private values may be stored in fields of each instance.
No WeakMap at full GC cost is required. Whether the implementation uses
Symbols or GC-optimized WeakMaps is not observable.
As the strawman notes, these private variables's names and values cannot
be discovered by reflection.
Given all this, I saw light at the end of the tunnel, and sketched
accordingly in my JQueryUK talk. I tagged the slide's title with
"(ES6?)" -- note the "?" where elsewhere I used "(ES6)" or "(ES7)" --
and made sure not to promise, though.
/be
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