fumblepigskin
you’re right… lodash and underscore use it because it is a valid variable name… i guess that is the underlying issue, as @danielbarde pointed out.
fumblepigskin
Sooo… he should listen to you, but you shouldn’t listen to him? Got it.
Dmytro Pylypenko
for these libraries _ just easy remember name convention, there is no any similarity between _.function and this._variable 
fumblepigskin
if i import _ from ‘lodash’ i am bringing that as a variable into the namespace, am I not? it is a valid character in a variable whether or not it is _.map or this._variable. Or am I wrong?
genzj
Totally agree. It’s unnecessary to invent a never been seen meaning of a symbol instead of taking widely accepted practice.
Dmytro Pylypenko
Rethinking are always good effort.
But in current case, I don’t see the real reason to use (IMO)ugly symbol hashtag.
Joe Zimmerman
It’s because people already use _ in the beginning of property names and changing it so that using a valid property name character pricing a variable marks it as private would likely break existing applications
Mike Mitterer
Why not just using TS? It gives you exactly what you want…