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Destructuring (ES6)

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 49)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Destructuring assignment allows extracting data from arrays or objects using a syntax that mirrors array and object literals.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-destructuring-assignment
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=811

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Destructuring_assignment

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/destructuring-es6/index.html

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