On Aug 13, 2008, at 2:50 PM, P T Withington wrote: > [Trimmed recipients] > > On 2008-08-13, at 17:26EDT, Brendan Eich wrote: > >> One possible semantic addition to fill a notorious gap in the >> language, which I sketched with able help from Mark Miller: a way to >> generate new Name objects that do not equate as property identifiers >> to any string. I also showed some sugar, but that is secondary at >> this point. Many were in favor of this new Name object idea. > > Is this "Name object" what we old Lispers would call a SYMBOL?
I said "gensym" in Oslo and had it in a draft, but kids today do not appreciate how l33t it is. The inspiration came from several sources, and one idea for sugar came from PLT-Scheme's define-local-member-name. /be _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
