I'm curious why one of the public symbols has a name that ends with "Tag"
("toStringTag"), but the others don't (such as "toPrimitive"). Maybe
"toStringTag" should be changed to "toString".

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On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:

> Got it: public symbols stand for property names and those are typically
> camel-case, starting with a lowercase letter.
>
> On 08 Feb 2015, at 02:09, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
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> Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
>
> Can you explain what you mean by “same-named”? You want `Symbol.for()` to
> have the same casing as `Symbol.iterator`?
>
>
> No, I mean we would normally use iterator (and had __iterator__ in
> SpiderMonkey, then '@@iterator' I believe), not ITERATOR. Python's
> dunder-bracketing doesn't cut it, symbols win. But UPPERCASE loses.
>
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I'm curious why one of the public symbols has a name that ends with "Tag"
("toStringTag"), but the others don't (such as "toPrimitive"). Maybe
"toStringTag" should be changed to "toString".