Seems like we are yet again talking ourselves out of unique symbols --
or symbols in general?
I still see big usability problems with UUIDs, even if used to name
non-enumerable properties. Tools help but the core language provides no
sugar, salt, or paprika. Just a very sour/bitter hex-string...
/be
Kevin Smith wrote:
To avoid accidental collision on the interned symbols, you must
avoid accidental collision on the strings used as keys in this
registration table. This demands exactly as much collision
resistant of string choices as using the strings directly. And
therefore also demands strings which are just as ugly.
I agree. A unique string to symbol registry would be a useless
indirection, as there is no information or ability stored in the
symbol that is not already inherent in the string used to fetch the
symbol.
The solution to your version+realm problem of this post is trivial
with string names. Just use a well-known unique string (uuid or
otherwise).
{ Kevin }
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