On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Brandon Benvie wrote:

> On 9/26/2013 4:09 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> The newness was using using string literals+ concise methods to write such 
>> meta=level methods.
>> 
>> What it brings to the table is that it address the meta stratification issue 
>> in a reasonable manner without having to add anything (other than the use of 
>> the hooks) to the ES5 level language.  (and I'm ignoring the enumerability 
>> issues).
> 
> I don't see how any of the string key proposals so far are different from 
> __proto__, which we agree is not an adequate level of stratification (none 
> basically).

It moves the stratified names out of the syntactic space that JS programmers 
typically use for their own names.  The Dunder names don't have that 
characteristics plus various sort of "_" prefixing is already used by many 
programmer at the application level.

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