I've got a few code bases where I do a lot of stuff like `func(person,
"person")`, and it'd be pretty useful to avoid the duplication.
I'd prefer something more direct like `nameof binding`, `nameof
binding.key`, and `nameof binding[key]`, where it returns the expression at
that parameter position as the "name", with a more convoluted fallback
algorithm to handle destructuring and local references sensibly. (It should
only consider parse-time data, and it should always strip whitespace and
unnecessary parentheses to keep it on a single line.) The required stack
space for this is just a single object pointer, and it's not like you can
do weird things with `eval` with it.
For security, there is the concern of unexpected passing of data through
parameters (think: `getSensitive("sensitive string")` as a parameter), but
this can be addressed on the minifier side via a directive and on the
language side by blocking all name sharing cross-realm (making them just
canonical strings derived from values instead).
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 09:05 Stas Berkov <stas.ber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we revisit this issue?
>
>
> In C# there is `nameof`, in Swift you can do the same by calling
>
> ```
>
> let keyPath = \Person.mother.firstName
>
> NSPredicate(format: "%K == %@", keyPath, "Andrew")
>
> ```
>
> Let's introduce `nameof` in ES, please.
>
>
> Devs from TypeScript don't want to introduce this feature in TypeScript
> unless it is available in ES (
> https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/1579 )
>
> This feature is eagarly being asked by TypeScript community.
>
>
> I understand there are couple issues related to `nameof` feature in ES.
> They are: minification and what to do if user already has `nameof` function.
>
>
> Minification.
>
> 1. If your code to be minimized be prepared that variable names will also
> change.
>
> 2. (just a possibility) Minimizer can have option to replace
> `nameof(someVar)` with result of `nameof` function.
>
>
>
> What if user already has `nameof` function.
>
> 1. To maintain status quo we can user `nameof` function having priority
> over newly introduced language feature.
>
> 2. OR we can use `typeof` syntax, e.g. `nameof msg.userName` (// returns
> "userName" string)
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