An array destructing specification choice

[Allen Wirfs-Brock]

On Nov 6, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:

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> Very interesting. Still seems orthogonal to the decision whether or not to coerce the rhs to array (whatever that means). If []= is considered an “array operator” then coercion seems in line with how other operators behave.
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> If I wanted to ignore the length property, I would use:
>      let { 0: a, 1: b } = someValue
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This is pretty much my thinking too.  A programmer's choice to use  [ ]  instead of {} the destructuring pattern means something. By choosing to use [ ] as the pattern they are expressing the intent to view someValue using "array element" access semantics. If they don't care about such things, they can use the { } pattern.

Allen