Private symbols vs property attributes

Kevin Smith khs4473 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 06:50:18 PST 2013


> I have come to think that this distinction is backwards. It is
> attributing something to symbols that actually is an attribute of
> properties. Symbols are just symbols. We should not piggyback them
> with something that is not actually related to their own semantics as
> such, but only their forwarding in specific client contexts.
>

Agreed - thanks for sharing this perspective.  I think that regardless of
what happens with respect to private state, we must only have one kind of
symbol.

{ Kevin }
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20130212/4257d1f9/attachment.html>


More information about the es-discuss mailing list