Is there any discussion about adding something similar to ES6 “property value shorthands” to maps? I’m just getting started with elixir so I’m not sure where to look for this type of language discussion.

What do you think about the idea? Would it be possible?

In Java Script (ES6) one can create an object like this:

let x = 50;
let y = 100;

let coordinates = { x, y };

which is shorthand for:

var coordinates = { x: x, y: y }

It would be great to have some thing similar in elixir:

iex> fu = "bar"
"bar"

iex> %{fu}  # Shorthand for %{fu: fu}
%{fu: "bar"}

and it could be used to bind variables in matches:

fn(%{x, y})  # Shorthand for fn(%{x: x, y: y})