Does not destructuring assignment provide a means to achieve the
requirement?
```const getEmail = ({contacts:{email:_}}) => _;```
```const getEmailsList = users.map(getEmail);```
```const {contacts:{email:getEmail}} = user;```
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 11:49 AM Simon Farrugia <simonfarrugi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Selector/Select Expression
>
>
>
> Doing functional & reactive programming is currently really verbose in
> JavaScript.
>
> Hopefully this issue will be alleviated with the addition of the pipe
> operator in the near future.
>
>
>
> One things you end up doing most when doing fp is doing simple selections
> (mappings) on objects & arrays. This unfortunately becomes really verbose
> and repetitive.
>
>
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> What I'm proposing is to be able to collapse/simplify selector arrow
> function expressions like this:
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>
>
> ```
>
> // user => email
>
> const getEmail = user => user.contacts.email;
>
> ```
>
>
>
> to something like this:
>
>
>
> ```
>
> // user => email
>
> const getEmail = .contacts.email;
>
> ```
>
>
>
> More examples:
>
>
>
> ```
>
> // user[] => email[] (With Arrays)
>
> const getEmailsList = users => users.map(user => user.contacts.email);
>
> const getEmailsList = .map(.contacts.email);
>
> ```
>
>
>
> ```
>
> // Usage with pipeline operator
>
> pipe(user, map(user => user.contacts.email))
>
> user |> .contacts.email
>
> ```
>
>
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> I think this would work really well, particularly in conjunction with the
> pipeline operator, resulting in more concise and expressive code improving
> readability.
>
> This is just syntactic sugar, but same as in the case of the pipeline
> operator, selector functions are so intrinsic and commonplace to any code
> base, that I would think it's worth considering.
>
>
>
> I would appreciate hearing your thoughts. Thanks.
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