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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What is reason behind restricting entries in global symbol registry to
be indexed only by strings?
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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?
From: michalwa...@gmail.com
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What is reason behind restricting entries in global symbol registry
In KeyKOS we used the word name. We had another meaning for
the word key and wanted to avoid confusion.
Cheers - Bill
On 12/22/13 at 9:57 PM, a...@rauschma.de (Axel Rauschmayer) wrote:
Offhand, ID instead of key, but that is awfully generic. It may make sense to
invent a new term.
On Dec
In KeyKOS we used the word name. We had another meaning for the word
key and wanted to avoid confusion.
Name is good.
Symbol.name(Symbol.for(foo)) === foo;
Or some variant thereof.
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On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Smith zenpars...@gmail.com wrote:
In KeyKOS we used the word name. We had another meaning for the word
key and wanted to avoid confusion.
Name is good.
Symbol.name(Symbol.for(foo)) === foo;
Or some variant thereof.
I like this, but it
Name is good.
Symbol.name(Symbol.for(foo)) === foo;
Or some variant thereof.
I like this, but it interferes with the name property that all function
objects have—the Symbol.name property would no longer have the expected
value Symbol.
Oh yes - doh! : )
Suggestions?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de wrote:
One problem with that method name: it overloads the term “key”. At the
moment, property keys are either strings or symbols. If a symbol can also
have a key, I’d find that confusing.
Axel
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Offhand, ID instead of key, but that is awfully generic. It may make sense to
invent a new term.
On Dec 22, 2013, at 6:53 , Mark S. Miller erig...@google.com wrote:
Suggestions?
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de wrote:
One problem with that method name:
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