Maybe ban holes, then...

[Brendan Eich]

Ok, you guys have holes in your head. No offense!

Holey patterns are useful, as occasionally are holey arrays. If you 
disagree on the latter, please acknowledge we are stuck with holey 
arrays for a long time, and array destructuring patterns are 
supplemental syntax based on a cover-grammar parse as array literals. 
This says holes win. If we have to argue about this, I think we'll do a 
disservice to bigger-impact issues that need resolution.

/be
> Herby Vojčík <mailto:herby at mailbox.sk>
> February 2, 2012 12:21 PM
>
>
> A bit off-topic... I don't like paretheses. Not only because I have to 
> put them in both ends, but also because of uncomfortable feeling of 
> "thing closed in parentheses".
>
> Maybe alternative convention to deal with expressions beginning with { 
> could be used as well:
>
>   0, {5:x} = someArray;
>   0, {0:a, 2:y} = someArray;
>
> Herby
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> Herby Vojčík <mailto:herby at mailbox.sk>
> February 2, 2012 11:49 AM
>
>
>
>
> If
>
>   {"5":x} = someArray;
>
> and
>
>   {"0":a, "2":y} = someArray;
>
> would be possible, there is probably little need for holes. In case of
>
>   [a,b,c,d,,f] = someArray;
>
> one could always use (some conventional) anon-var, like _ (from Prolog):
>
>   [a,b,c,d,_,f] = someArray;
>
> Herby
>