On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> wrote:
> We've supported destructuring for years and no one has asked for this. I
> say YAGNI and when in doubt, leave it out. One can always write two
> destructuring declarations without much repetition:
>
But who has been using it? Certainly not the general JS development
community.
> let {b} = obj;
> let {x,y} = b;
>
> but of course one would just write
>
> let {x, y} = obj.b;
>
> in that contrived case.
>
> Main thing is, not having as-patterns is not a big deal based on
> experience with JS1.7+ since 2006 in Mozilla code.
>
> /be
I've found it quite useful in Clojure/Script and I'm sure folks who have
encountered the feature in the ML derived languages would agree.
David
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