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’Tis a Silly Place

King Arthur and the Knights approach Symbol land. Through the gates they see: unique identifiers that can’t be converted to strings, a global registry that nobody remembers asking for, and well-known symbols with names like Symbol:to-primitive.

“’Tis a silly place,” says Arthur.

“But Symbol:iterator is how for-of works,” says a Knight who has been paying attention since Chapter 21.

“And Symbol:to-primitive is how objects control their type coercion,” adds another, who has been paying attention since Chapter 5.

“…Fine. We’ll stay for one section. Maybe two.”