About private names

[Kyle Simpson]

> BTW, if you know that a property name is foo, why would you ever code 
> obj["foo"] instead of obj.foo?

The most obvious reason is if the name of the property contains a character 
which cannot be an identifier character in the property name... like a 
unicode character, for instance.


> Without private names there is no particular reason to say obj['foo'] 
> rather than obj.foo but there is a very important distinction between 
> obj[foo] and obj.foo.

Are we talking about the difference between obj['foo'] and obj[foo]? I think 
perhaps that was a subtle shift in this conversation that I missed until 
just now?

Without private names, is there (and what is it?) an important distinction 
between:
1. obj[foo] and obj.foo; AND
2. obj['foo'] and obj.foo


--Kyle