[[OwnPropertyKeys]] key ordering

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

On Apr 19, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> Did you check against http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:enumeration which links off to this es-discuss thread:
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> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-March/012965.html
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> Sounds good, just asking for a look-back at the big thread and strawman to see if there are any missing subtleties others have pointed out in the past.

In a separate message I made a change that addresses 32-bit value non-limits on index keys.

I fairly arbitrarily separated the string and symbol keys groups.  At the specific implementation level this might complicate (or possibly simplify) things, but it seems like a useful distinction for consumers of these key lists.  For example, if you don't care about symbol keys you can stop iterating over the key array as soon as you encounter a symbol. 

If we didn't know that the web has property creation ordering dependencies I might have specified sorting the string keys (doesn't require recording property creation order).  However, there is no natural sort order for symbols.

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> /be
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> Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> The ordering I propose is:
>> 1) All array index property keys, in ascending array index numeric order. Followed by:
>> 2) All other string property keys, in property creation order. Followed by:
>> 3) All symbol property keys, in property creation order
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>> Does anybody see any reason why we shouldn't specify (this) property ordering?
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