Ken Takata wrote:
> 2019/7/15 Mon 1:23:21 UTC+9 Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Patch 8.1.1692
> > Problem: Using *{} for literal dict is not backwards compatible.
> > (Yasuhiro
> > Matsumoto)
> > Solution: Use ~{} instead.
> > Files: runtime/doc/eval.txt runtime/doc/popup.txt, src/eval.c,
> > src/testdir/test_listdict.vim src/testdir/test_popupwin.vim,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_07.dump,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_mask_2.dump,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_mask_3.dump,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_mask_4.dump,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_mask_5.dump,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_scroll_2.dump,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_scroll_3.dump,
> > src/testdir/dumps/Test_popupwin_scroll_4.dump
>
> I personally prefer #{} than ~{}.
> '~' is used as a bitwise not operator in C. So, when I see ~{}, I would doubt
> if it is a bitwise not of {}. (Vim script doesn't have a ~ operator, though.)
> Dictionary is called as hash in some other languages, and # is also called
> hash. So, #{} might be easy to remember. And I don't think that #{} have a
> compatibility problem.
I like the connection with # being "hash", used for a hashtable.
Only downside is that it is used as a comment marker in other languages.
Well, I suppose we'll never use # for a comment in Vim (considering it
being used for the alternate file: ":e #").
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