Why not just Dict(:col => "l1")?
--Tim
On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 04:55:17 PM Mike Innes wrote:
> You might consider creating an alias, e.g.
>
> d(xs...) = Dict{Any, Any}(xs...)
>
> d(:a=>1, :b=>2)
>
> It's not as nice, but it's not awful either. You could also do
>
> macro d(xs...)
> for x in xs
> @assert x.head == :(=>)
> isa(x.args[1], Symbol) && (x.args[1] = Expr(:quote, x.args[1]))
> end
>
> :(Dict{Any, Any}($(map(esc, xs)...)))
>
> end
>
> @d(a=>1, b=>2)
>
> Saving on the colons might just be enough to make the lack of literal
> syntax less painful.
>
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 at 18:45 Michael Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > With the change to 0.4 happening soon I'm finding the the new Dict syntax
> > in 0.4 (removal of {}, []) is extremely verbose.
> >
> > I find myself interfacing with JSON APIs frequently, for example a
> > configuration dictionary :
> >
> > data = {
> >
> > :displayrows => 20,
> > :cols => [
> > :
> > { :col => "l1" },
> > { :col => "l2" },
> > { :col => "l3" },
> > { :col => "num", :display => true },
> > { :col => "sum", :display => true, :conf => { :style
> >
> > => 1, :func => { :method => "sum", :col => "num" } } }
> >
> > ]
> >
> > ... # Lots more
> >
> > }
> >
> > becomes -
> >
> > data = Dict{Symbol,Any}(
> >
> > :displayrows => 20,
> > :cols => [
> > :
> > Dict{Symbol,Any}( :col => "l1" ),
> > Dict{Symbol,Any}( :col => "l2" ),
> > Dict{Symbol,Any}( :col => "l3" ),
> > Dict{Symbol,Any}( :col => "num", :display => true ),
> > Dict{Symbol,Any}( :col => "sum", :display => true,
> > :conf
> >
> > => Dict{Symbol,Any}( :style => 1,
> >
> > :func
> >
> > => Dict{Symbol,Any}( :method => "sum", :col => "num" ) ) )
> >
> > ]
> >
> > ... # Lots more
> >
> > )
> >
> > This feels like asking a person using arrays to write the following
> >
> > Array{Int64,2}( Vector{Int64}( 1,2,3), Vector{Int64}( 4,5,6) )
> >
> > vs
> >
> > [ [ 1, 2, 3] [ 4,5,6 ] ]
> >
> > Can we please reconsider ?
