Question about Symbols and GlobalSymbolRegistry

[Axel Rauschmayer]

> On 28 Jan 2015, at 00:06, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
> 
> 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

There is one use case (admittedly a rather hypothetical one): serializing the Symbol.* symbols to a text format (e.g. an encoding in JSON).

> (and URLs suck for such things; plus, you probably mean URIs, but I don't care enough to check!).

Yes, I mean URIs(?)

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Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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