New private names proposal

[Brendan Eich]

On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:

> Currently is JS, x['foo'] and x.foo are precisely identical in all contexts. This regularity helps understandability. The terseness difference above is not an adequate reason to sacrifice it.

Aren't you proposing the same syntax x[i] where i is a soft field map, to make exactly the same sacrifice?

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:names_vs_soft_fields

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