Extending getter/setter syntax to []

[heartsentwined]

Proposed syntax:

foo['bar'] to be the equivalent of foo.bar (i.e. ember's getter/setter); foo*['bar'] would be its native equivalent.

Main use case is for dynamic property access. In vanilla js, when we access a variable property of an object, we write foo[bar], because foo.bar would compile to a literal key bar.

Extending the . syntax to [] could generate:

get$(foo, bar)
set$(foo, bar, 'baz')

from both of the following:

foo.bar
foo.bar = 'baz'

foo.get bar
foo.set bar, 'baz'

At present, only the latter is available for dynamic ember getter/setter access.

[ghempton]

This seems good. I will think about it more. Thanks!

[kristianmandrup]

👍 awesome idea