@@toStringTag sounds like a function

# Nathan Wall (12 years ago)

The name @@toStringTag sounds like a function, like toString and toFixed, but it's just a string property. The fact that @@toPrimitive is a function further makes the point.

Has just @@stringTag been considered?

Nathan

The name `@@toStringTag` sounds like a function, like `toString` and `toFixed`, but it's just a string property.  The fact that `@@toPrimitive` is a function further makes the point.

Has just `@@stringTag` been considered?

Nathan

# Domenic Denicola (12 years ago)

It's "toString tag", not "to StringTag".

It's "toString tag", not "to StringTag".

# Nathan Wall (12 years ago)

Domenic Denicola wrote:

It's "toString tag", not "to StringTag".

Ah, you know, I hadn't made that connection. That's interesting.

I still think I would prefer something else... maybe even just @@tag. But that certainly makes more sense out of the naming.

Thanks!

Domenic Denicola wrote:
> It's "toString tag", not "to StringTag".
>

Ah, you know, I hadn't made that connection.  That's interesting.

I still think I would prefer something else... maybe even just `@@tag`.  But that certainly makes more sense out of the naming.

Thanks!

Nathan

# Brendan Eich (12 years ago)

@@tagForToString? Er, no.

It's actually not the whole return value of any toString call, of course. It is the %s in "[object %s]" returned by Object.prototype.toString.call(x) for an object x. This suggests

@@objectToStringTag

or something along those lines. Does that help?

@@tagForToString? Er, no.

It's actually not the whole return value of any toString call, of 
course. It is the %s in "[object %s]" returned by 
Object.prototype.toString.call(x) for an object x. This suggests

@@objectToStringTag

or something along those lines. Does that help?

/be

> Nathan Wall <mailto:nathan.wall at live.com>
> October 19, 2013 12:05 PM
>
> Ah, you know, I hadn't made that connection.  That's interesting.
>
> I still think I would prefer something else... maybe even just 
> `@@tag`.  But that certainly makes more sense out of the naming.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nathan
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