WeakMap better than Private Symbols? (was: direct_proxies "problem")

[Brendan Eich]

Nathan Wall wrote:
> In the case of (1), the implementation using a private symbol will have internal accesses to the `timestamp` symbol exposed through the unknownPrivateSymbol trap.

Private symbols do not trap.

> In the case of (2), the implementation using a private symbol will fail on a call to `setTime` when the object is frozen (I think).

Nope, we agreed that frozen objects support setting pre-existing (added 
before the object was made non-extensible) properties named by private 
symbols.

/be