That's a pretty good summary Sent from BlueMail
On May 28, 2018, 2:09 PM, at 2:09 PM, "T.J. Crowder" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I've tried to glean this from the meeting notes and such, but many who >were >actively involved are on the list, so: > >Am I right that Symbols started out as "private Name objects" then over >time their name was changed, they became primitives, and the privacy >aspect >was dropped; but having guaranteed-unique values was still useful, and >found application (amongst other places) in solving the problem of >adding a >default iterator to `Array.prototype` without name conflicts with >existing >code in the wild? > >Thanks, > >-- T.J. Crowder > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >es-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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