David Nolen wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org
<mailto: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;
Maybe allowing
let {b, b:{x,y}} = obj;
would be enough. It sort-of comforms to existing syntax as well as
semantics.
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
Herby
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