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hazz
11y ago
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avmich
11y ago
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What's the rationale for creating Symbols?
bzbarsky
11y ago
The idea is to be able to create unique property names. Not just "generate a random string and hope it's unique", but actually unique.
kendallpark
11y ago
Is this even JavaScript???
Man, I can't wait until ES6 is out. Get pumped.
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