From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T00:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation

Hi --

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Trans wrote:

>> That's rather drastic. All it needs is a new symbol for literal hashes.
>> (I like [| |] myself.)
>
> Nah, just use the _collection_ brackets for both array and hash. The
> parser can tell them apart:
>
>  # array
>  [ a, b, c ]
>
>  # hash
>  [ a=>x, b=>y, c=>z ]
>  [ a: x, b: y, c: z ]

I don't like to have to scan visually for a separator in order to know
what the [ meant.  That seems ad hoc and fragile.


David

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