They are not - if they were, then adding a new well-known symbol like
Symbol.foo would fail if anyone had code that did `Symbol.for('foo')`. (I
have no idea if that is the reason, but certainly that's a reason not to
make them available via the registry)

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Cyrus Najmabadi <cyr...@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>  Hi esdiscuss.  A couple more questions.
>
>
>
> 1)      Are the built-in symbols (like ‘Symbol.iterator’) in the
> GlobalSymbolRegsitry?
>
> 2)      If so, what are their keys?  i.e. how would one reach
> Symbol.iterator using Symbol.for(…)?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>          -- Cyrus
>
>
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>
>
> *From:* Kevin Smith [mailto:zenpars...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:16 PM
> *To:* Cyrus Najmabadi
> *Cc:* Jason Freeman; es-discuss
> *Subject:* Re: Question about Symbols and GlobalSymbolRegistry
>
>
>
>
> > Am I understanding correctly?
>
> Yes. The argument to the Symbol constructor is just a descriptive string.
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