Destructuring into existing variables

[admosity]

I find myself moving data around a lot in and out of already existing variables, and it seems that the only way to do so is having a series of assignment statements or destructuring first and looping over the new object/array to assign the values.

The proposed syntax would be:

existing.{one,two} = {one:1, two:2, three:3}

for object destructuring and:

existing.[ 0..1 ] = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

AND

existing.[ 0, 1, 5] = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

[connec]

More discussion of this idea can be seen at #3225 (and probably a few other places). I think it's a great idea, though your second last example exists (existing[0..1] = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]) and your last example would make as much sense as an object de/restructuring (existing.{0, 1, 5} = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]).

[vendethiel]

Thanks @connec :).

[admosity]

Ah, knew it was there somewhere. Sorry for creating a dupe.