gleam/javascript/symbol
Types
Symbols are special unique values in JavaScript.
For further information view the MDN documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Symbol
pub type Symbol
Functions
pub fn description(symbol: Symbol) -> Result(String, Nil)
Get the description of the symbol, if it has one.
Examples
symbol.new("wibble")
|> symbol.description
// -> Ok("wibble")
pub fn get_or_create_global(key: String) -> Symbol
Returns the symbol for the given key from the global symbol registry, creating and registering a new one if one did not already exist.
Uses the JavaScript Symbol.for
internally.
For further information see the MDN documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Symbol/for
pub fn new(description: String) -> Symbol
Creates a new symbol with the given description.
Symbols created with this function are “local”, they are not in the global symbol registry.
For further information see the MDN documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Symbol/Symbol