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1166 :: Braces for object literals

• mapdog (orginal) [2015-04-29T16:01:39+02:00] view original

  This could be valid:

  var p: Point = {x:1, y:2}
  Run

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• novist (orginal) [2015-04-29T16:44:34+02:00] view original

  
  var x = '1'
  var y = '2'
  var a = {x:1, y:2}
  Run

  This is also valid syntax. Same syntax in different contexts meaning different things. Thats not gonna work.. Well it could, but i think it would do more harm than good. Even though i would like a shortcut but thats not the point.

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• dom96 (orginal) [2015-04-29T17:55:35+02:00] view original

  
  var p = Point(x: 1, y: 2)
  Run

  Already works.

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• filwit (orginal) [2015-04-29T21:43:16+02:00] view original

  and tuples are even closer for simple types

  type
    Point = tuple[x,y:int]
  var
    p1: Point = (x:1, y:2)
    p2: Point = (1, 2)
  Run

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• mapdog (orginal) [2015-04-29T22:17:08+02:00] view original

  It's just that some people familiar with Javascript, Json and C++ would be used to seeing objects with braces.

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• jibal (orginal) [2015-04-29T23:21:02+02:00] view original

  You need a much better reason than that to add it to Nim. And in C++, {x:1, y:2} is an initializer, not a literal. C now has struct literals, but they look like (struct POINT) {0, 0}.

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• Jehan (orginal) [2015-04-29T23:48:41+02:00] view original

  mapdog: It's just that some people familiar with Javascript, Json and C++ would be used to seeing objects with braces.

  That may well be, but Nim's syntax has almost no overlap with C++/Javascript to begin with, so I'm not sure why this specific syntax (of all things) should look like either of them.

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