I use a lot of structs, so I'd like this shorthand. I don't think wrapping the current syntax in a module is a problem though.
You couldn't really implement this as a macro and save any typing as you'd need to require the macro before using it, which would probably be about the same amount of characters. Cheers, Louis On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 at 20:42 Paul Schoenfelder <[email protected]> wrote: > I definitely wouldn't call this a severe limitation, but it would be a > nice-to-have for readability. That said, I haven't actually run into any > cases where I would've used the shorthand syntax - as José mentioned in his > original reply, the vast majority of the time, structs have functions that > go with them, or at the very least, typespecs. > > I do think it's possible for there to be cases where the shorthand syntax > would be used, but I have to say that I haven't seen that in the wild, or > in my own projects yet, so I can't say the need is particularly dire to > have this in the standard library. It's easy to implement this as a macro > in your own projects if it's a common need though. I think a real-world use > case which demonstrates the value would go a long way towards making your > case. > > Paul > > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Akio Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has there been any further consideration on this topic? Structs are great, > but they feel severely limited without the ability to easily and cleanly > define arbitrarily named structs. > > > On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 5:43:45 PM UTC-4, José Valim wrote: > > That won't be the case for now. Structs are different than records. Cases > where you define a module simply to define a struct should be more > uncommon, I expect it to rather have struct-related functions the majority > of the time. > > So having only defstruct/1 will help send this message across. After v0.13 > is out and we are more familiar with structs, we can re-evaluate the > shortcut syntax again. > > > > *José Valim* > www.plataformatec.com.br > Skype: jv.ptec > Founder and Lead Developer > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Dave Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would there be any support for extending defstruct so that > > defstruct Person, name: "", age: 21 > > was a shortcut for > > defmodule Person > defstruct name: "", age: 21 > end > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/716bde83-ad19-46ad-896f-90be5493c035%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/716bde83-ad19-46ad-896f-90be5493c035%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAK%3D%2B-Tto7GDLvgY1LBX_T_xJc6MBBScX-z8_ximv_VpXaoykFA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAK%3D%2B-Tto7GDLvgY1LBX_T_xJc6MBBScX-z8_ximv_VpXaoykFA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM-pwt5ctVrzdO3Jh5Dev5RCxrLnNjJoC9%3Dd%3D%2B3q4N6KsX--MA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
