Question about Symbols and GlobalSymbolRegistry

Brendan Eich brendan at mozilla.org
Tue Jan 27 15:06:07 PST 2015


Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
> It may make sense to add them. Their identifiers would have to be as 
> unambiguous as possible, e.g. URIs such as 
> "http://ecmascript.org/symbol/foo".

Symbol.iterator and the other well-known symbols are self-same in all 
connected realms. See 
http://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-well-known-symbols.

So there's no need for this (and URLs suck for such things; plus, you 
probably mean URIs, but I don't care enough to check!).

/be


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