Even if #{...} was ugly (which I don't feel one way or the other on),
having two special syntaxes for the same thing is even uglier than having
one ugly set literal notation :)
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant <
abonnaireserge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a fan of #{foo bar baz}.
>
> Ambrose
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> #{foo bar baz} is somewhat ugly. It occurs to me that one could modify
>> the reader to additionally accept
>>
>> {{foo bar baz}}
>>
>> without breaking anything. It's not possible for it to be a valid map
>> literal, because the outer {...} pair has only one object inside it
>> and a map literal requires an even number of objects (zero, two, four
>> ...), so right now {{foo bar baz}} will just throw a
>> CompilerException, and so will {{foo bar baz quux}} even though the
>> inner {...} pair then has an even number of objects. Making the reader
>> treat that as a set literal is therefore a purely additive change.
>>
>> It's one character longer than #{foo bar baz} but it looks nicer, IMO,
>> and still shows the cousin-ship between sets and maps by using the
>> same choice among {}, [], ().
>>
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