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They can make the string part optional. Variables and symbol tables have been staples of programming languages and compilers for ages now. It's a very standard pattern. Nothing Rube-Goldberg about it.

But React has deviated so far from both the OOP, FP, and traditional programming paradigms that now it kind of feels like hacks are needed to compensate for hacks.

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I mean at the point you're writing a symbol table and associating it with an object so you can figure out which method to call in its context, probably it occurs to you that you're entirely re-creating a feature the language already has (but slower and worse) rather than just mostly doing so, as they are now.

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