Correct. The registry is only accessed via `Symbol.for(key)` and `Symbol.keyFor(sym)`. The parameter of `Symbol()` is a description, not a key.
> On 22 Jan 2015, at 01:36, Cyrus Najmabadi <cyr...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am reading the Symbol section of the ES6 spec (19.4), and my understanding > is that calling the Symbol constructor does *not* add an entry to the > GlobalSymbolRegistry. Is that correct? > > For example: > var s1 = Symbol(“foo”); > var s2 = Symbol.for(“foo”); > > In this example, s1 and s2 would be two distinct symbols. And in the > following example: > > var s1 = Symbol(“foo”); > var s2 = Symbol.keyFor(s1); > > In this example, s2 would be undefined. > > Am I understanding correctly? > > Thanks, > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org <mailto:es-discuss@mozilla.org> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer a...@rauschma.de rauschma.de
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