> Speaking of compositions though, I can't recall if it was ever discussed 
> whether this operator can be chained, and if so, whether it associates. I 
> don't see too much value in this since references to any intermediate 
> constructions would only be available by walking the proto chain. I can't 
> think of a great use case, just curious if it's been considered and/or 
> rejected?

If it was chainable you could use it to do poor man’s mixins. But the 
requirement that the rhs be an object literal prevents chaining. Otherwise, you 
would have to define some kind of clone operation for intermediate lhs operands.


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