The private name proposal included the possibility of attaching a string value to a symbol when it is created. The string could be used in debug output (toString) for the symbol.
"Mark S. Miller" <erig...@google.com> wrote: >It depends what you mean by "associating". What do you have in mind? > >On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> >wrote: > >Presumably, this concern would also apply to associating programmer supplied >debug info with symbols > > > > >"Mark S. Miller" <erig...@google.com> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> >wrote: > >Note that in most cases, you want to look up an already interned symbol name >rather than intern a new one. > > >One of the beautiful things about interning is that it is a pure function, and >so does not provide a communications channel. If one frame could test whether >some other frame somewhere had already interned a given name, you'd have an >unpluggable cross-frame communications channel. > > >-- > Cheers, > --MarkM > > > > >-- > Cheers, > --MarkM
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