On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was specified before symbols existed, and all implementations do it > as a string property. If we were reinventing it today it would either > be a symbol or something in the MOP, but are hands are tied by legacy. > >> Being that it was not formally spec'd it shouldn't have broke backwards >> compatibility either. > > Backwards compat has nothing to do with specs, and everything to do > with existing implementations. Multiple implementations agreed on > __proto__, so our choice was either to leave it unstandardized or spec > what the browsers did. Is there a migration to make it a Symbol in ES7? (ignorant question?) _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
