Message from JavaScript discussions

June 2017

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

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

— 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

— Well what the fuck is the use-case for symbols then

— I thought the whole point was non-accessible props

— Eh, I muddled over Symbols for awhile myself. Many people come up with varying use cases which all have varying validity.

— In the end, all a Symbol is, is an unknowable value. What use that is, is up to interpretation

— It is basically a UUID no one can directly observe, but can still get a reference to if it is assigned to an object