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Rick Waldron (2013-12-22T17:10:10.000Z)

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On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Smith <zenparsing at gmail.com> wrote:

> In KeyKOS we used the word "name". We had another meaning for the word
>> "key" and wanted to avoid confusion.
>
>
> "Name" is good.
>
>     Symbol.name(Symbol.for("foo")) === "foo";
>
> Or some variant thereof.
>

I like this, but it interferes with the name property that all function
objects have—the Symbol.name property would no longer have the expected
value "Symbol".

Rick
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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2014-01-03T17:11:40.923Z)

I like this, but it interferes with the name property that all function
objects have—the `Symbol.name` property would no longer have the expected
value `"Symbol"`.

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