d at domenic.me (2015-02-13T23:25:37.444Z)
They are not - if they were, then adding a new well-known symbol like
Symbol.foo would fail if anyone had code that did `Symbol.for('foo')`. (I
have no idea if that is the reason, but certainly that's a reason not to
make them available via the registry)
They are not - if they were, then adding a new well-known symbol like Symbol.foo would fail if anyone had code that did `Symbol.for('foo')`. (I have no idea if that is the reason, but certainly that's a reason not to make them available via the registry) On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Cyrus Najmabadi <cyrusn at microsoft.com> wrote: > Hi esdiscuss. A couple more questions. > > > > 1) Are the built-in symbols (like ‘Symbol.iterator’) in the > GlobalSymbolRegsitry? > > 2) If so, what are their keys? i.e. how would one reach > Symbol.iterator using Symbol.for(…)? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- Cyrus > > > > > > > > *From:* Kevin Smith [mailto:zenparsing at gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:16 PM > *To:* Cyrus Najmabadi > *Cc:* Jason Freeman; es-discuss > *Subject:* Re: Question about Symbols and GlobalSymbolRegistry > > > > > > Am I understanding correctly? > > Yes. The argument to the Symbol constructor is just a descriptive string. > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss at mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20150127/bfd959ab/attachment-0001.html>