It may make sense to add them. Their identifiers would have to be as unambiguous as possible, e.g. URIs such as "http://ecmascript.org/symbol/foo <http://ecmascript.org/symbol/foo>".
> On 27 Jan 2015, at 23:55, Jordan Harband <[email protected]> wrote: > > They are not - if they were, then adding a new well-known symbol like > Symbol.foo would fail if anyone had code that did `Symbol.for('foo')`. (I > have no idea if that is the reason, but certainly that's a reason not to make > them available via the registry) > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Cyrus Najmabadi <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi esdiscuss. A couple more questions. > > > > 1) Are the built-in symbols (like ‘Symbol.iterator’) in the > GlobalSymbolRegsitry? > > 2) If so, what are their keys? i.e. how would one reach Symbol.iterator > using Symbol.for(…)? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- Cyrus > > > > > > > > From: Kevin Smith [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:16 PM > To: Cyrus Najmabadi > Cc: Jason Freeman; es-discuss > Subject: Re: Question about Symbols and GlobalSymbolRegistry > > > > > > Am I understanding correctly? > > Yes. The argument to the Symbol constructor is just a descriptive string. > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] rauschma.de
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