Reading through [the meeting notes][1]: > YK: You don't need unique symbols when you can just expose private symbols.
> BE: Why can't we just have (private) Symbols > BE: Can we unwind the split between private and unique? These struck a chord with me. Thus, in the spirit of > BE: We aren't going to resolve this now, need to take it to es-discuss I thought I'd start off the thread. I believe the proposal is to not have "public" symbols, i.e. you cannot find any symbols via `getOwnPropertyKeys` or other such operations when given an object. However, if someone hands you the symbol object itself, you can of course use that to access the property's value. This would be sufficient for all the ES spec built-ins and would also provide truly private state for those that don't export their symbols. The interaction with proxies is complicated, but if I recall had been mostly solved. Would love to get some discussion on this, as to me it seems like a much stronger alterative than abandoning symbols altogether in favor of GUIDs. [1]: https://github.com/rwldrn/tc39-notes/blob/master/es6/2013-07/july-25.md#51-symbol-primitive-value-or-object-one-more-time _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
