From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T05:31:06+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation

Trans <transfire@gmail.com> 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 ]
> 
> Compared to this other stuff that'd be a breeze to parse.

# empty array

[]

# empty hash

martin