# Imagining Elixir 2.0

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**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** core\
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/imagining-elixir-2-0/19369 "2019-01-15T08:09:18Z")\
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@josevalim have the Core team considered changing or improving the syntax for pattern matches on and construction of maps?

One of the changes I would love to see is ability to only having to specify the name of the key and get a variable of the same name:

```
%{ name, age } = my_map

```

or only specify the variable names and get keys using the same names:

```
name = “Jose”
my_map = %{ name }

```

This is similar to how clojure does it and especially newer js syntax.

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