Re: WindowProxy as the key in ES6 Set/Map/WeakSet/WeakMap

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/17/14 6:35 PM, Rick Waldron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Will this actually matter? Will `w` ever have a _different_ identity
>>>>> such that it will no longer be usable get the value from the map?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In Chrome, yes.  Did you not try my testcase at
>>>> http://jsfiddle.net/zVqVX/1/ in Chrome?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know where the disconnect was, but yes I see this result
>>> now—thanks for your patience.
>>>
>>> @Mark Miller, have you seen this example? Run it in Chrome with
>>> experimental JS on—the object apparently violates its own identity.
>>>
>>
>> To be clear, I'm actively working on the Map/Set implementations,
>>
>
> Excellent, thanks for the heads up.
>
>
>> and they're flag-guarded, so changing Chrome's behavior is very much on
>> the table (and it's why I sent this message in the first place).
>>
>
> Yes, as my previous message explicitly stated: "with experimental JS on".
>
> To recap then, the behavior will match the expectation that a WindowProxy
> preserves identity across browsering contexts; is this still correct?
>

Yes, that's what Toon originally suggested to me (prompting me to start
this thread), and I think I've been convinced that that's the right
behavior.

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