!Re: proposal: Object Members

[Ranando King]

> What use case are you referring to here?

In the case of SymbolTree, the objects in use are external.

> I think there’s been a misunderstanding. Everybody agrees that that’s a
bad pattern. It’s not what the point of private symbols would be. It’s not
a target use case.

That certainly puts my mind at ease.

> As Isiah said, “all of the examples here I've presented are for scenarios
where the state is related to the factory that created the objects.”

If the factory that creates the objects is the also the only thing trying
to store private information on those objects, then I understand you're
only looking for per-instance module-private data, possibly with the
ability to use common private names. If that's the case, then it really is
just 2 simple extensions of my proposal:
* allow a Symbol when used as a private or protected property name to
persist as the private Symbol name for the private instance field on each
object for which it is used.
* create an additional privilege level (internal) that places the new
field's name in the [[DeclarationInfo]] of the function containing the
declaration.

The effect of using these 2 features together is that anything within the
same function as the declared Symbol will gain access to the internal field
of all objects using that Symbol as a field name.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:36 PM Darien Valentine <valentinium at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > I'd say you've identified the common pattern, but that pattern itself is
> a bad use case, and the use of private symbols as you have defined them
> doesn't do anything to correct the technical issue.
>
> I think there’s been a misunderstanding. Everybody agrees that that’s a
> bad pattern. It’s not what the point of private symbols would be. It’s not
> a target use case.
>
> > Since you cannot stick new properties onto a non-extensible object, even
> private symbols won't solve the problem with your use case.
>
> That appending private symbols to external objects which are frozen
> wouldn’t work doesn’t matter precisely because it’s not a target use case.
> That it doesn’t work reliably might even be considered a positive, since it
> discourages something we all seem to agree is not good practice.
>
> It’s also not related to private symbols; this is already how properties
> work, regardless of what kind of key they have.
>
> > The difference here is that in your use cases, library A is "sneakily"
> storing information on object B.
>
> What use case are you referring to here? I can’t find any example in the
> previous posts that matches these descriptions. As Isiah said, “all of the
> examples here I've presented are for scenarios where the state is related
> to the factory that created the objects.” The same is true of my examples.
> Everybody’s on the same page regarding not wanting to add properties to
> objects their own libraries do not create.
>
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