The problem i have with SideTable as a name is that it’s implying a very specific use case (one that could equally be served by private names), it’s also not an obvious name to developers who are not aware of terms of art.
I said a long time ago that the name WeakMap did not match the expected semantics of other languages, nor what was expected by developers but we couldn’t think of a good alternative name, and (i thought) decided that sticking with WeakMap was the best of the bad options. —Oliver On Dec 16, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > ... >> >> (The name "SideTable" makes me think I seriously need to re-evaluate >> what `WeakMap` is supposed to be.) > > That is what was so attractive about changing the name. > > Allen > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
