Pattern matching?

[Jordan Harband]

If it only does `===`, then it's not much better than switch.

It would be interesting to see a pattern matching proposal that was
extensible/customizable, perhaps via a well-known Symbol method.

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Andreas Rossberg <rossberg at google.com>
wrote:

> On 30 June 2017 at 15:55, Henrik Sommerland <henrik.sommerland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Long ago there was a proposal:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20111206195512/http://wiki.
> ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:pattern_matching
>
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