Correction, suppose const b = { a : b } . Circular references can be cloned
trivially, as far as I can tell
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 20:52 Naveen Chawla <naveen.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any real problem with circular reference cloning? I don't see
> any, Please let me know in the simplest case e.g. { a: a } (obviously
> contrived syntax here)
>
> Otherwise, I agree completely about the 4 dots being the wrong syntax for
> this, precisely for the reason you gave
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 18:18 Henrique Barcelos <rick.hjpbarce...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> IMO, this would be very problematic.
>>
>> 1. 4 dots are visually almost identical to 3 dots. This could introduce
>> severe bugs because of a simple hard to spot typo.
>>
>> 2. Deep traversing will always have performance problems in some cases.
>> Dealing with circular references can take this issue even further.
>>
>> I believe such functionality should be used in very specific situations,
>> where object shape is well-known, not very deep and definitely not
>> circular. So, supporting this at the core of the language will probably be
>> frowned upon by the community.
>>
>> Em ter, 23 de out de 2018 08:57, Ahad Cove <ahadc...@gmail.com> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hello Scripters,
>>>
>>> I really appreciate everything you all have done for the language and
>>> have no complaints over here.
>>> I do have a suggestion though :)
>>>
>>> At work we’ve almost got rid of lodash, except we still need it for
>>> DeepCopy vs rolling our own.
>>> It’s the same with my side projects. I don’t use lodash because the main
>>> times that I need deep copy is when I’m either digging into the Redux store
>>> using React, or copying an observable in the Angular world.
>>>
>>> I believe ES Script users would appreciate having a deep copy spread
>>> operator tremendously.
>>>
>>> My proposal is to go off of the current spread operator we currently
>>> have in ES and make it 4 dots for a deep spread. This can be used on
>>> Objects or Arrays.
>>>
>>> ‘’’js
>>> const oldDeepObj = {
>>> InnerObj: {
>>> func: () => return ‘wow’
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> const obj = {....oldDeepObj}
>>> obj.innerObj.func = () => return ‘nice’
>>>
>>> oldDeepObj.innerObj.func()
>>> > wow
>>> ‘’’
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Looking forward to hearing back from you all.
>>> If there’s any other questions let me know
>>>
>>> - Bilal Abdullah
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>> --
>>
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