> I agree with the idea in principle but I may be a symptom of a bigger
> problem, which is how to represent data constructors generally.
Yep, I totally agree.
> We could of course introduce two or three letter sigils (or remove the
> restriction altogether)
I like the idea of no limit for sigil names, I think this is really a good
direction, even enabling people to use metaprograming to do some really
interesting things (shorter_maps for example could be able to do
`~MyStruct{id}` instead of `~M{%MyStruct id}`)
> how we would want to handle the casing in said situations
Well, IMO the convention adopted now is interesting but not very reasonable. I
mean, I know the benefits we take from not allowing interpolation for some
sigils (I suppose it might make a huge difference for some cases), but in the
end it is just a convention and people are already allowed to break it right?
What if we just don’t care about that at all and let people create sigils
however they want? I don’t think we should change the current convention
though, I think we must leave it as it is for one letter sigils and leave it
open for more.
Best,
Kelvin Stinghen
[email protected]
> On Oct 24, 2019, at 17:47, Wojtek Mach <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So this is a separate discussion but what I'd rather see is another sigil
> like mechanism for structs that would make these valid:
>
> URI[https://elixir-lang.org]
> Decimal[1]
> Complex[0, 1]
> Ratio[1, 3]
> MapSet[1, 2, 3]
> Money[100 USD]
> Date.Range[2019-01-01/12-31]
>
> Having such mechanism doesn't address your concern but if such exists I feel
> like at least sigils become less scarce because I feel like people would
> reach out for them.
> If there's appetite for something like this, let me know. Off the bat there's
> a huge difference semantically between Decimal[1] and Complex[0, 1] but maybe
> there's a way to reconcile it.
> (Btw, it happens so that `Decimal[1]` is _syntactically_ correct but
> `Complex[0, 1]` isn't :))
>
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