Message from JavaScript discussions

June 2017

— Once this gets gc'ed, { value: 42 } can also be safely gc'ed

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Here it is btw https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/getOwnPropertySymbols

— Well shit

— Anyways, that's the two ways I know of to shim private vars

— It seems we both surprise each other right now! XD

— Nothing outside this scope has access to the weakmap, hence private vars

— Anyways, what you said makes sense, that the new keyword would not neccesarily introduce any bad things or cons.

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— Although just doing closures is way easier

— It always is. More developers should take advantage of (abuse!) JS scoping rules

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const createInstance = function () {
  const priv = { value: 42 };
  return {
    digitSum () { ... }
  };
};

— Just way way simpler

— Agreed