dons:
> circularfunc:
> > I suggest Haskell introduce some syntactic sugar for Maps.
> >
> > Python uses {"this": 2, "is": 1, "a": 1, "Map": 1}
> >
> > Clojure also use braces: {:k1 1 :k2 3} where whitespace is comma but
> > commas are also allowed.
> >
> > I find the import Data.Map and then fromList [("hello",1), ("there",
> > 2)] or the other form that I forgot(because it is to long!) to be to
> > long...
> >
> > So why not {"hello": 1, "there": 2} ?
> >
>
> Well, one problem is that we don't have a definitive Map library. Which
> kind of Map would you like? IntMap/Map/AVLTree? Some other tree?
>
> That said, you could certainly write a little
> preprocessor/quasiquoting/template haskell for dictionary literals.
>
Perhaps overloaded *dictionary* literal syntax?
So we could have
instance Dictionary Map k
instance Dictionary IntMap
instance Dictionary HashTable
instance Dictionary Trie k
etc.
That would be pretty awesome..
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