It's a bit weird that it breaks alpha equivalence (i.e. you expect your program's semantics to be invariant under local variable renaming) but I can see why peo

It's a bit weird that it breaks alpha equivalence (i.e. you expect your program's semantics to be invariant under local variable renaming) but I can see why people like it. It's certainly compact and idiomatic, and there's a nice (albeit superficial) symmetry with destructuring assignment.