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

[Rick Waldron]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Domenic Denicola <
domenic at domenicdenicola.com> wrote:

>  Really?? http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-15.15.5
>

Wow, yep. For some reason, when I saw that example, I only recalled the
original WeakMap proposal—which is 2 years out of date. VERY sorry for the
confusion.


Rick





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> *Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2013 14:57
> *To:* Nathan Wall
> *Cc:* es-discuss at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* Re: WeakMap better than Private Symbols? (was: direct_proxies
> "problem")
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> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Nathan Wall <nathan.wall at live.com>wrote:
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>>     // ES6 WeakMap
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>>     let timeMap = new WeakMap(),
>>         // Store WeakMap methods to maintain integrity of the internal
>> state.
>>         WeakMapGet = Function.prototype.call.bind(WeakMap.prototype.get),
>>         WeakMapSet = Function.prototype.call.bind(WeakMap.prototype.set);
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>  Just a heads up, this is unnecessary and actually won't work at all.
> WeakMap has nothing defined on its prototype property—all methods are
> late-bound to the instance for the same reason you mention in the comment.
> https://gist.github.com/4505255
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>  Rick
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