Pattern matching?

[Henrik Sommerland]

Yes :)

This is roughly what I had in mind:

match obj with
  {a, b : 5} -> return a + b
  {a, c : {d, e : true}} -> return a + d
  'rof' -> return 'lol'

Where the first clause matches if obj has the property a and the property b
that has the value 5.
The second clause works the same but recursively.
And the third simply checks if obj is equal to 'rof'.


Den 30 juni 2017 16:46 skrev "Sebastian Malton" <sebastian at malton.name>:

Are you thinking kind of like Rust's match statement? I think that
something like that would be quite a good addition.

Sebastian

*From:* henrik.sommerland at gmail.com
*Sent:* June 30, 2017 9:55 AM
*To:* es-discuss at mozilla.org
*Subject:* Pattern matching?

Why is there no support for pattern matching in JavaScript?
I would guess that it has been proposed before, and if so why hasn't it
been included?

I have been thinking about it and I think it would integrate nicely into
JavaScript.
If it hasn't been proposed already I would propose it, and I would gladly
look into it more and try to examine what kind of semantics would be
suitable.

Peace!
-- 
Henrik "TheGrandmother" Sommerland
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