FWIW I mocked up a json syntax macro:
using MacroTools, Lazy
import MacroTools: prewalk
function prockey(key)
@capture(key, (a_:b_) | (a_=>b_)) || error("Invalid json key $key")
isa(a, Symbol) && (a = Expr(:quote, a))
:($a=>$b)
end
function procmap(d)
@capture(d, {xs__}) || return d
:(Dict{Any, Any}($(map(prockey, xs)...)))
end
macro json(ex)
@>> ex prewalk(procmap) esc
end
Michael's original example becomes:
data = @json {
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" } } }
]
# ...
}
You might argue that it's actually nicer than the original.
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 at 21:22 Scott Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another use is marking off the keyword arguments or parameters.
>
>
> On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 3:11:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>>
>> What are the other uses of ; in Julia? I can only think of suppressing
>> output on the REPL and separating expressions on a single line - neither
>> seems inconsistent or really related at all to the use within [].
>>
>> On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 3:06:22 PM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 1:47:07 PM UTC-4, Sean Marshallsay
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [1:10;] is simply a consequence of matrix literal syntax (like [1:10;
>>>> 11:20]) and gets translated into vcat(1:10). It might be a bit confusing
>>>> but there's no point in making it a special case
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I understand that, and that too is not consistent with the use of ;
>>> outside of [ ].
>>> spaces, colon, semicolon, and commas are all treated specially instead
>>> of [ ], which can be rather confusing.
>>> Some of that special behavior is being deprecated, but some remains.
>>>
>>>
>>
