[Feature request] Add . (dot) or other symbol(s) as variable reference in assignment block · Issue #180 · satyr/coco (original) (raw)

Currently we have this sugar: some.long.long.long.variable .= to-upper-case!

But we often have a lot of functions from some libs that takes var as argument and returns new value.

I suggest to add . (dot) as variable reference in the assignment block:

some.long.long.long.variable = 'hello world!'

some-external-lib.sanitize = (s) -> s.replace /</?[^>]+>/g, ''

some.long.long.long.variable = some-external-lib.sanitize . .replace /\s+/g, '_' .to-upper-case!

And we can use some.long.long.long.variable = . .to-upper-case!

Maybe instead of dot use &. or $& (like in regex)

I think this will be very usable.