Array#flat is coming to ES; would you like like some sugar with that?

# Michael Luder-Rosefield (6 years ago)

Apologies 'if' this is a terrible idea, but since I have just encountered a situation where this sugar would actually be useful I'm absolutely going to suggest it.

Extend the ... syntax to allow for flattening deconstructed arrays. Literally extend it:

....array === ...(array.flat()) // i.e. depth 1 .....array === ...(array.flat(0)) // unlimited depth

Apologies 'if' this is a terrible idea, but since I have just encountered a
situation where this sugar would actually be useful I'm absolutely going to
suggest it.

Extend the ... syntax to allow for flattening deconstructed arrays.
_Literally_ extend it:

....array === ...(array.flat()) // i.e. depth 1
.....array === ...(array.flat(0)) // unlimited depth
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# Isiah Meadows (6 years ago)

Not stating my opinion of the idea here, but I find it unlikely that it'll get accepted, for similar reasons to why the old proposed comprehension syntax got omitted in favor of just using `map` and `filter` (arrow functions are concise enough).

Isiah Meadows me at isiahmeadows.com, www.isiahmeadows.com

Not stating my opinion of the idea here, but I find it unlikely that
it'll get accepted, for similar reasons to why the old proposed
comprehension syntax got omitted in favor of just using `map` and
`filter` (arrow functions are concise enough).
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Isiah Meadows
me at isiahmeadows.com
www.isiahmeadows.com


On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Michael Luder-Rosefield
<rosyatrandom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies 'if' this is a terrible idea, but since I have just encountered a
> situation where this sugar would actually be useful I'm absolutely going to
> suggest it.
>
> Extend the ... syntax to allow for flattening deconstructed arrays.
> _Literally_ extend it:
>
> ....array === ...(array.flat()) // i.e. depth 1
> .....array === ...(array.flat(0)) // unlimited depth
>
>
>
>
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Array#flat is coming to ES; would you like like some sugar with that?

Not stating my opinion of the idea here, but I find it unlikely that it'll get accepted, for similar reasons to why the old proposed comprehension syntax got omitted in favor of just using map and filter (arrow functions are concise enough).

Not stating my opinion of the idea here, but I find it unlikely that it'll get accepted, for similar reasons to why the old proposed comprehension syntax got omitted in favor of just using `map` and `filter` (arrow functions are concise enough).