Brandon Benvie wrote:
By design, private symbols can only be used if you have direct access
to them in some way.
Right.
Public symbols should show up in getOwnPropertyNames (if I have
followed recent discussion correctly).
I don't recall this, and it's an incompatible change from ES5. Can
Ah I guess I misread what was said back in the July meeting and then
misinterpreted the recent discussion in that framing. The recent discussion
I'm referring to is at and around
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-November/026536.html
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Brendan
Or I guess to clarify, I don't understand what the distinction is between a
private symbol and a unique symbol if unique symbols don't show up
anywhere. So I jumped to the assumption that they did show up in gOPN based
on what I read.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Brandon Benvie
2012/11/26 Brandon Benvie bran...@brandonbenvie.com
Or I guess to clarify, I don't understand what the distinction is between
a private symbol and a unique symbol if unique symbols don't show up
anywhere. So I jumped to the assumption that they did show up in gOPN based
on what I read.
For
One way or another we need a way to reflectively identify all the non-private
own property keys of an object including non-private symbols keys.
If we think the compat risk of adding symbols to the result of
Object.getOwnProperyNames is too great (and we've recently discussed why this
might
Given the commonness of mixing one object into another, I was wondering how
this would work with private symbols -- considering methods will expect to find
those symbols on the objects on which they are called. Has there been any
discussion about providing a way to copy private symbols under
By design, private symbols can only be used if you have direct access to
them in some way. Public symbols should show up in getOwnPropertyNames (if
I have followed recent discussion correctly). The fact that private symbols
must be explicitly passed around to gain access to them is their primary
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