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      • Symbol.prototype.description S4

      Proposal details
      Proposal overview

      This proposal adds a description property to Symbol.prototype, providing a string description of a symbol. It solves the problem of accessing symbol descriptions without relying on implicit string conversion, which is disallowed.

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      The README below comes from the upstream repository and may contain outdated stage or status metadata. Use the proposal details above as the current source of truth.

      See the proposal introduction for more info.