es-discuss Digest, Vol 95, Issue 9

[Isiah Meadows]

> From: Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de>
> To: brendan at mozilla.org
> Cc: es-discuss list <es-discuss at mozilla.org>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 03:17:54 +0100
> Subject: Re: Implicit coercion of Symbols
> Does it have to be a Reflect.* method? It could be
`Symbol.prototype.getDescription()` or a getter.
>
>> On 04 Jan 2015, at 02:25, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
>>
>> Rick Waldron wrote:
>>>
>>> That example above is pretty compelling for throw always consistency.
>>
>>
>> With a new Reflect.* API for converting a symbol to its
diagnostic/debugging string?
>>
>> If you agree, please file a bugs.ecmascript.org ticket.
>>
>> /be
>> _______________________________________________
>> es-discuss mailing list
>> es-discuss at mozilla.org
>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
>
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
> axel at rauschma.de
> rauschma.de

A good name for such a getter would be, IMO,
`Symbol.prototype.description`. It would also seem to fit with some other
common JS idioms, such as `Array.prototype.length`, etc. It also feels
clearer and cleaner as a getter than an instance method or function.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20150103/71240fcb/attachment.html>