Re: Why does Symbol.for and Symbol.keyFor are limited to strings?

2015-01-02 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock 

On Jan 2, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Michał Wadas wrote:

 What is reason behind restricting entries in global symbol registry to
 be indexed only by strings?

What are the use cases for anything other strings?

Allen
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Why does Symbol.for and Symbol.keyFor are limited to strings?

2015-01-02 Thread Michał Wadas 
What is reason behind restricting entries in global symbol registry to
be indexed only by strings?
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RE: Why does Symbol.for and Symbol.keyFor are limited to strings?

2015-01-02 Thread Gary Guo 
Why not? Symbol's [[Description]] internal slot is string

 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 18:18:55 +0100
 Subject: Why does Symbol.for and Symbol.keyFor are limited to strings?
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 What is reason behind restricting entries in global symbol registry to
 be indexed only by strings?
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