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Re: check for obj nested prop

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Subject Re: check for obj nested prop
Date Sat, 09 May 2020 00:26:07 +0200
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> writes:
>> so I end up doing
>>
>> if (a && a.b && a.b.c && a.b.c.d)
> <cut>
>> Is there a way to get the check value of an object's nested property
>> without first having to test for all the ascendant properties?
> 
>   if (try {obj.a.b.c.d} catch {})
> 
> might do what you want.

This is *obviously* syntactically invalid; “try {obj.a.b.c.d} catch {}” is 
not an /Assignment*Expression*/, but a /Try*Statement*/.  If you do not want 
to learn the grammar of the languages, please at least do minimal testing 
before you post suggestions.

<http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/#prod-IfStatement>

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check for obj nested prop Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2020-05-08 15:37 +1000
  Re: check for obj nested prop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-05-08 10:52 +0100
    Re: check for obj nested prop Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-05-09 00:26 +0200
      Re: check for obj nested prop Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-05-09 03:09 +0100
        Re: check for obj nested prop Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-05-12 09:28 +0200
          Re: check for obj nested prop Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2020-05-12 04:01 -0700
    Exception handling (was: check for obj nested prop) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-05-09 03:46 +0200
  Re: check for obj nested prop JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2020-05-08 17:18 +0700
  Re: check for obj nested prop Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2020-05-08 03:53 -0700
  Re: check for obj nested prop James Kirk <noneya.invalid@gmail.com> - 2020-05-08 11:00 -0400
  Re: check for obj nested prop Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-05-09 00:19 +0200
    Re: check for obj nested prop Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2020-05-12 04:04 -0700
      Re: check for obj nested prop luserdroog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2020-05-12 07:59 -0700
  Re: check for obj nested prop "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-05-12 14:17 -0700
    Re: check for obj nested prop Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-05-13 02:46 +0200
    Re: check for obj nested prop Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2020-05-13 13:08 +1000
      Re: check for obj nested prop "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-05-13 12:30 -0700

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