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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Someone more knowledgeable will join in soon, but I'm pretty sure it was derived from:

  const x = { age: 42 };
  x[Symbol.name] = "joe"; // <--- this
so it makes a lot of sense.


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