What would happen if this operator was used in the global scope?
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Bucaran <jbuca...@me.com> wrote:
> Sometimes you have a function that receives a parameter shadowing an
> existing function or variable in the parent scope.
>
> In _some_ cases I would like to use the same variable name to avoid having
> to come up with new names. Contrived example ahead:
>
> ```js
> import path from "path"
>
> function doSomething (_path) {
> if (path.dirname(_path) === "/" ) {
> // ...
> } else {
> }
> }
> ```
>
> It would be nice if there was a special construct like `typeof` or
> `instanceof` that would take a name and evaluate to whatever
> variable / function of the same name existing in the parent scope (or
> undefined otherwise).
>
> ```js
> import path from "path"
>
> function doSomething (path) {
> if ((insteadof path).dirname(path) === "/" ) {
> // ...
> } else {
> }
> }
> ```
>
> In this case the expression above using the made-up `inteadof` operator
> would evaluate to the imported `path` variable
> instead of the `path` variable name.
>
>
> Regards
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