Another alternative is to introduce this funny "binding not
destructing" behavior as a first-class language construct, so that one
could do:
```
let o = { f: 1 };
let < f > = o; // using your angle-bracket syntax for the sake of discussion
o.f = 2;
console.log(f); // prints '2'
let < foo > = import "module"; // same syntax!
```
Of course this is far too large a change for this late date, etc, etc.
But my point is that "modules as objects" works well because it fits
well with the rest of the language. If we want `f` to be an
abbreviation for `o.f` then it would be nice if that binding behavior
was part of the base language.
--scott
ps. my personal preference is *not* to introduce new 'binding' syntax,
but instead to imagine the values assigned as a result of the
destructuring as being somewhat magical proxies which retain their tie
to the original module object and reflect changes there. Using
proxies as a mental model of the semantics avoids having to muck
around with the core notion of variable binding. That is, it really
is a `let`, and it really is ordinary `destructuring` -- all the magic
resides in the particular value returned.
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