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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (2013-06-25T15:42:07.000Z)

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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jason Orendorff
<jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think TC39 made @@iterator a symbol on the theory that users would
> want to build iterable Proxy-based string-key maps that would support
> property-access syntax.

My recollection is that we chose to make `iterator` a symbol because
we worried about taking the name "iterator" on lots of existing
objects.

Sam

github at esdiscuss.org (2013-07-12T02:27:37.633Z)

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think TC39 made @@iterator a symbol on the theory that users would
> want to build iterable Proxy-based string-key maps that would support
> property-access syntax.

My recollection is that we chose to make `iterator` a symbol because
we worried about taking the name "iterator" on lots of existing
objects.

Sam

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