Allowing object field name shorthand

[J Decker]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Sebastian Malton <sebastian at malton.name>
wrote:

> I would like to propose that the dot or '.' is allowed in object field
> names so that the following are allowed.
>
> var obj = {
>     field1: "val" ,
>     field2.field3: 3,
>     field2.field4: true
> };
>
>
This is much like
var obj = {
   field1: 3
   field2 : 4
   field3 : obj.field2+3
}

which falls apart because obj isn't technically fully defined, and doesn't
have a field2.  So your second field2.field4 wouldn't be able to reference
the previous object created for field2.field3.

it would be a huge complexity for engines to create objects....


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