Why would it be useful, from a programmer's perspective, to expose ToString
directly? It is just a spec-internal thing, and the reason this change is made
is because it is no longer very useful to directly expose that spec-internal
thing given how it interacts with symbols.
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From: es-discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Jeff Walden
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Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:39
To: Allen Wirfs-Brock; Erik Arvidsson
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Subject: Re: String(symbol)
On 08/12/2014 11:07 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
> sounds good to me, I'll update the spec. accordingly
>
> On Aug 12, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Erik Arvidsson wrote:
>> I was suggesting that String(symbol) should not throw.
>>
>> This can be spec'ed as String( value ) checking the Type of the value and
>> special case it in case of the value being a symbol.
With this change, as far as I can tell there's no concise operation directly
corresponding to the ToString abstract operation. The best that seems possible
is some horribly indirect operation like (v) => Error.prototype.toString.call({
name: v, message: "" }). That seems undesirable to me. I'm not convinced that
having String deviate from ToString is a good thing.
Jeff
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