I'm only seeing a couple comments there - was that all or am I missing something?
I think hashes as an overwritable method that returns a number is pretty standard and let's you combine member hashes with simple Bitwise ops. Could have on value types and a default on Object that would combine hash of own props that were value types or frozen. Thanks, Michael McGlothlin Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 9, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> wrote: > > For posterity: > > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:hashcodes > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=discussion:hashcodes > > (from ES4 daze, a long time ago.) > > /be > > Michael McGlothlin wrote: >> Is there a reason not to provide an object id and hash value as other >> languages often do? I find myself defining an identity symbol on objects >> with a value from a simple global counter. It makes it easier to debug if I >> can just look at a log and see what objects and functions were active. >> >> Likewise a hash value would simplify a lot of comparisons and make it easier >> to debug. >> >> I especially find the ID useful when working with bound functions as they >> can be difficult to tell apart. I like to change toString() to provide the >> ID followed by the code (flattened to one line). >> >> >> Thanks, >> Michael McGlothlin >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
