Symbols are basically a way to create "private" keys otherwise unaccessible ( except for `Objeect.getOwnPropertySymbols` that AFAIK will exposes them anyway ).
Symbols are also sometimes used to define special "magic" behaviors A sort of polyfill to play with Symbols in ES5 capable engines is here: https://gist.github.com/WebReflection/5238782 Bear in mind that might be outdated or not fully spec compliant. Regards On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:43 AM, L2L 2L <[email protected]> wrote: > I declined from my proposal as it seem to be a way...--I haven't figure it > out yet, or still don't fully understand the nature of Symbol-- my apology. > > E-S4L > N-S4L > J-S4L > > > On Oct 10, 2014, at 1:06 AM, "L2L 2L" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I've played around with Symbol. And from my understanding, they are use > to define unique properties and variable --I'm still not fully > knowledgeable on them, only what I read. So if you would like to give your > summary of them, please feel free.--. > > > > My proposal is to be able to define an symbol object: > > > > var obj = new Symbol("symbol obj"); > > > > Why? > > > > To be able defined properties for objects with keys of symbol, as so: > > > > var obj = {}; > > > > obj.propObj = new Symbol("propObj"); > > > > obj.propObj.prop = Symbol("prop"); > > > > This is doable via all constructor wrapper objects for all primitive > data types. > > > > It'll be a nice addition to this primitive type to have the same > capability. > > > > This is my proposal. > > > > E-S4L > > N-S4L > > J-S4L > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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