On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]> wrote: > I imagined .= would do both, but I don't think my suggestion should be taken > seriously. In fact, your example illustrates a major flaw (that exists in > either proposal/suggestion), that I don't immediately know how I would > answer: > > var o = { foo: "bar" }; > o .= foo; > > Is `o` now a string with the value "bar"?? I think that would cause more > problems than its worth.
Yes, that's exactly what it would do. This sort of pattern is even reasonably common when doing tree-walking, for example: you see a lot of "node = node.left;" or whatnot. ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
