I also think ditching {} for dicts wasn't a great idea.
-Mike
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that syntactic sugar for Dict literal construction would be
> appreciated. There were good reasons for removing the previous syntax, but I
> think it should be possible to find something more terse than the status
> quo.
>
> On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 12:45:08 PM UTC-4, Michael Francis 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 ?
>>
>
