FR: Allow property setting shorthand (for objects literals) with 'multiple dots' access

[ymeine]

Hi all,

I like the property setting shorthand feature for object literals, which is (to remind you):

{
    a
    b
    c.x
    c.y
}

compiling to

{
  a: a,
  b: b,
  x: c.x,
  y: c.y
}

However, I've been surprised not being able to do something like:

{
    a.b.c
    x.y.z
}

to compile to

{
    c: a.b.c,
    z: x.y.z
}

as this however seems intuitive: simply take the last part of the property access as the property name, like (whatever-I-do-to-reach-the-value).property, giving property: (whatever-I-do-to-reach-the-value).property.

With a real example:

{
    JSON.parse input .property
}

would give:

{
    property: JSON.parse(input).property
}

FYI, the first non-working example I gave you (with simple multiple dots access) triggers the following error: Parse error on line 2: Unexpected 'DOT'

While the last one gives: Parse error on line 2: Unexpected 'CALL('

Best regards

[vendethiel]

satyr/coco#163

[rhendric]

Implemented in #958.