Re: [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Type casting in array destructuring expressions
| From: | Claude Pache | Date: | Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:24:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Type casting in array destructuring expressions | ||
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> Le 7 avr. 2020 à 17:09, Enno Woortmann <enno.woortmann@web.de> a écrit :
>
> As the proposal explicitly aims at type casts
> when working with data from a untyped source (eg. iterating over a CSV
> file, XML without a XSD defining the types of the elements)
I feel that the RFC lacks a section named “Motivation”...
That said, the larger question is: How many ad-hoc features do we want to add to array
destructuring? For type-casting is one specific kind of transformation you may want to apply to your
data.
—Claude