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hajile on Jan 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript

I'd far rather save that for an alternative switch expression with pattern matching.

    const slowSum = (lst: {x: number}[]) =>
      switch(list) {
        [{x}, ...y]   -> x + slowSum(y) //not tail recursive
        [{x}, {x: y}] -> x + y          //alias second x to y
        [{x}]         -> x              //handle length 1
        []            -> 0              //handle length 0
      }

tracker1 on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

Having been watching, and a couple times playing with Rust... would definitely like a similar pattern matching system in JS. I still feel the C# syntax for this feels a bit alien `varname switch {...}`.

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