Dean Landolt wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com
<mailto:bren...@mozilla.com>> wrote:
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
It might be useful to expose this functionality with a more
obvious
name, to underscore that you lose the secrecy/unforgability.
Symbol.public()?
We are mooting public as the keyword for non-private but unique
symbols, so that's ambiguous. ReallyPublic? :-P We want to capture
the singleton sharing, and 'intern' is the jargon word to use. For
the jargon-disabled, I'm not sure what to use, but perhaps
teaching people about intern'ing is better than using some long
Java-esque name.
Maybe Symbol.namespace('iterator') to communicate that you're
referencing the global System namespace pool. Anyone can easily roll
their own namespace pools too.
Urgh, namespace is misleading, it suggests Common Lisp's symbol
packages, the AS3/ES4 namespaces, XML namespaces. Here, @iterator is not
a prefix or part of a pair, or set-of-symbols. It's just a symbol you
can find from a string.
/be
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