Felix wrote: > Ingvar von Schoultz wrote: >> ...(but restricted to returned values). Also, my brain wants to >> allow the following, or at least reserve as a future possibility... >> >> var {a: x, b: y+z} = fn(); > > your form confuses me a lot, because it's not clear to me where 'y' and > 'z' are coming from. what if the thing returned by fn() doesn't have a > 'y', is it going to pull 'y' from the lexical scope, or is it going to > use 'undefined' for 'y'?
That's what I meant by "restricted to returned values": I would expect that the lexical scope would not be visible. > the es-harmony form > var {x: a, y: b} = fn(); > makes intuitive sense to me because the thing on the left is a > pattern-matching template. I'm saying that I expect the rhs object to > have that shape, and if the shape does match, pull out values from it. Thanks for the description, it helps. Is this the actual semantics? Does it require a matching shape and throw an error otherwise? -- Ingvar von Schoultz _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss