Bob, I think it's an interesting idea too, but you can't strong-arm people into getting excited about what you're asking for. If it really is that important to you then put together a solid proposal, write a Babel plugin and then try to find a champion for it.
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 at 14:05 Bob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > It does make one stop and wonder why the group will endlessly entertain > trolls debating whether or not ES6 (or ES5) portends the end of > civilization as we know it, while relentlessly ignoring literally dozens of > similar/identical proposals for property picking, a feature which easily > contributes as much to the language at as little cost as many other > features such as spread properties. > > Bob > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Bob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This extremely useful feature, which is sometimes called "picking", has >> been discussed extensively on the group, but the "thought leaders" (?) who >> apparently have the ability to kill a feature by saying "I don't really >> think it's that important" have failed to get excited about it, although it >> seems to me to be at least as "interesting" (in terms of the unwritten >> criteria apparently applied to determine "interesting") as many other >> features which are progressing through the ES39 life-cycle, and the nature >> of the TC39 governance process, which gives entirely new meaning to the >> notion of "design by committee", makes it impossible to find the champion >> which is the gating factor for the entire process. >> >> Bob >> >> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Yeong-u Kim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> # Suggestion: Destructuring object initializer. >>> >>> ---------- >>> >>> Destructuring assignment: it extracts values by destructuring an >>> object, and assign _them_ to ‘variables.’ I suggest Destructuring object >>> initialization syntax; it is similar to Destructuring assignment, except >>> that it initializes an object with _the extracted values_. >>> >>> ```javascript >>> const name_info = {"first name": "Yeong-u", "last name": "Kim", >>> nickname: "K."}; >>> const e = "computed property name"; >>> >>> const object = { >>> name: { >>> *{"first name": forename, "last name": surname}: name_info >>> }, >>> *[a, b, c]: [1, 2, 3], >>> *[d]: [4], >>> [e]: "This is not part of the syntax" >>> *[{"some property name": "new one"}]: [{"some property name": 5}], >>> *{gettable: something}: {get gettable() {return Symbol("Using >>> [[Get]]");}} >>> }; >>> /* >>> { >>> name: { >>> forename: "Yeong-u", >>> surname: "Kim" >>> }, >>> a: 1, >>> b: 2, >>> c: 3, >>> d: 4, >>> "computed property name": "This is not part of the syntax", >>> "new one": 5, >>> something: Symbol(Using [[Get]]) >>> } >>> */ >>> ``` >>> >>> ---------- >>> >>> I would appreciate hearing your opinion on this. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> es-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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