You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off.

You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off

- Ira Gershwin

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I feel like calling off symbols when we have string-keyed interning 
tables and three namespaces and bears, oh my.

/be

Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Dean Landolt<dean at deanlandolt.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Tab Atkins Jr.<jackalmage at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Brendan Eich<brendan at mozilla.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Domenic Denicola wrote:
>>>>> org.ecmascript.es6.builtins.iterator?
>>>> You forgot the smiley, or: nooooooooooo!!!!!!
>>> Which is why I (not in jest) suggested the third property namespace,
>>> for language-defined symbols. ^_^
>> Why a third namespace when there's the built-in modules that functions
>> nicely as our registry?
>
> This suggestion was in the context of "symbol strings", which are just
> strings in a separate namespace, rather than the existing concept of
> symbols as a unique, empty, frozen object.  With a symbol string,
> where you retrieve it from doesn't matter - equality is still based on
> the contents.  If you want guaranteed non-conflict with user-space
> symbols, you need a third namespace.
>
> ~TJ
>

```
You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off.

You like potato and I like potahto
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off
```

-- Ira Gershwin

----

I feel like calling off symbols when we have string-keyed interning 
tables and three namespaces and bears, oh my.