A better pattern matching

[Siraj Kakeh]

Hello!
I have been working with Elixir on production level for 6 months. I find myself regularly doing pattern matching similar to this way: 

%{"id" => id,firstname: firstname, ...} = person_map

I come from a Javascript background and recently destructing was added to JS that pretty much looks like pattern matching in Elixir with the difference that I was able to do this in JS:

{ id, firstName } = personObject

 please don't mind the camel case, I know how sensitive Elixir developers are to that 😄

I was wondering if there was a way to make pattern matching like that in Elixir, for example the code above will be something like this:

%{ id, firstname, ...} = person_map

Maybe make that possible only on atom map keys to avoid converting between strings and atoms, or add a macro that does that.

I would love to hear your opinion, it's something that is done all the time on pattern matching and honestly I'm a little jealous JS can do that but Elixir `the mother of pattern matching` can't!

[Andrea Leopardi]

Hey there,

there is no built-in way to do this. However, thanks to Elixir's extensibility, there are libraries that let you do something very similar to it. Check out https://github.com/whatyouhide/short_maps for example.

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[Peter Hamilton]

There have been many previous discussions, but this is the biggest one: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/elixir-lang-core/NoUo2gqQR3I/WTpArTGMKSIJ

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