jeroenbourgois

jeroenbourgois

Just a random idea that keeps popping up in my head whenever I am pattern matching on maps. In Javascript es6 notation, there is this concept of a shorthand format to create objects, which I find very concise:

// pre es6
const someObject = {cat: cat, dog: dog, bird: bird}

// es6
const someObject = {cat, dog, bird}

Whenever I am pattern matching in Elixir I wonder how handy this would be to have, say:

def decorate_name(%{id, firstname, lastname}) do
  "Hi, #{firstname} #{lastname}"
end 

As opposed to

def decorate_name(%{id: id, firstname: firstname, lastname: lastname}) do
  "Hi, #{firstname} #{lastname}"
end 

Any thoughts?

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wojtekmach

wojtekmach

Hex Core Team

It’s been proposed many times, there’s a couple libraries on Hex for it. This is a good read about it: A story of regret and retiring a library from Hex – Andrea Leopardi.

jeroenbourgois

jeroenbourgois OP

Sorry, did not know that. Thanks!

rvirding

rvirding

Creator of Erlang

TANSTAAFL I’m afraid.

Sanjibukai

Sanjibukai

Thanks for the link.. It was interesting to read.

Sanjibukai

Sanjibukai

Hello co-creator of Erlang!! It’s a pleasure!

Just googled that acronym.. What are the “cost” you are implying?

NobbZ

NobbZ

I got a result… A German Wikipediapage, which linked to this: No such thing as a free lunch - Wikipedia

rvirding

rvirding

Creator of Erlang

I think the paper referenced by @wojtekmach gives a good example of a “cost” of a feature.

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