I'd REALLY like to be able to query deeply nested object attributes without having to test every single level of the object hierarchy to find if the attribute e

I'd REALLY like to be able to query deeply nested object attributes without having to test every single level of the object hierarchy to find if the attribute exists. Function level scope would be great too - it would be good to conditionally declare and set variables in a function without needing to pre-declare the variable outside the condition test.