On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote: > Also, in general this sort of well known private method name hook is much > more extensible than "internal method" as currently used in the es spec. > They also avoid the need to polute the Proxy API > > Reified names (private or otherwise) are a very powerful mechanism. I’m not > aware of another programming language that does this (possibly Common Lisp > with its symbols, but I don’t know enough about them). It’s good to have > them, because they increase JavaScript’s expressiveness.
Private names in basically the same form as have been accepted for ES.next are available in Racket [1], with the equivalent of the 'private x;' syntax that we proposed but didn't make the cut. I believe that the system in Racket was one of the inspirations for Dave's original private name proposal long long ago. [1] http://pre.racket-lang.org/docs/html/reference/createclass.html?q=define-local#%28form._%28%28lib._racket/private/class-internal..rkt%29._define-local-member-name%29%29 -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
