On Apr 13, 2013, at 1:09 , Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Axel Rauschmayer wrote: >> How would object value types such as int64 work? Should symbols be similar? > > That came up and was an argument for making typeof sym == "symbol", given sym > = Symbol(). Same for int64 and uint64 in my patch at > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749786
Can’t wait for those. They might even warrant an update to JSON. > (Note on that bug's patch: it still allows i = new int64(0) but I will change > new to throw, per agreement at last TC39 meeting to make new create a > reference type instead of a value type for aggregates from binary data, i.e. > structs and typed arrays.) Nice. If symbols mimic this behavior then it probably should be symbol() instead of Symbol(). -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de home: rauschma.de twitter: twitter.com/rauschma blog: 2ality.com
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