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Getter to retrieve a Symbol's [[Description]] field

# Brandon Benvie (12 years ago)

V8 has currently implemented a "name" getter on Symbol.prototype that returns the value passed to the Symbol function. In the latest spec draft this is referred to as the [[Description]] field but there is no way to access it. Is there intended to be something that allows retrieving this?

# Allen Wirfs-Brock (12 years ago)

Symbol.prototype.toString uses in in the current draft (see esdiscuss.org/topic/a-new-es6-draft-is-available#content-4).

I suppose there is no reason not to make it directly accessible. What should be the named of the property? It isn't necessarily a "name" which is why I used [[description]] to name the internal state. Should that be the property name?

# Brendan Eich (12 years ago)

Allen Wirfs-Brock <mailto:allen at wirfs-brock.com> September 30, 2013 2:57 PM Symbol.prototype.toString uses in in the current draft (see esdiscuss.org/topic/a-new-es6-draft-is-available#content-4).

I suppose there is no reason not to make it directly accessible. What should be the named of the property? It isn't necessarily a "name" which is why I used [[description]] to name the internal state. Should that be the property name?

Names should be descriptive. :-P

Shorter is better, but perhaps there is some precedent from Lisp (spelled Clojure) and Scheme to consider.