On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM, John Zabroski <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Other than bit sets and enumerations, what **commonly used** types want to >> introduce new, named literals? >> >> [and unions, for constructors] >> >> shap >> >> > If you are asking about programming languages in general, then "syntax for > hashes" has to be up there.... > > That's not quite what I meant. Enumerations are one example - the enumerands are new bindings. Bit sets having named elements are another - a series of bindings gets introduced for the individual bit names. Unions introduce leg constructors. What other commonly used constructs introduce multiple named elements in a single declaration in that sort of way? Jonathan
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