Re: [Factor-talk] Tuple syntax

[Eduardo C. <way...@gm...>]

Slava Pestov wrote:

> Here's another approach. It is kind of hackish, but I like it!

Very nice. Get's my vote.

> Otherwise, it is a series of name/value pairs:
>
> T{ color { "red" 123 } { "green" 100 } { "blue" 0 } }
> T{ color f 123 100 0 }

I'd like to express my support for a syntax like this:

        T{ color red: 123 green: 100 blue: 0 }

Let's line that up with the other proposal:

        T{ color { "red" 123 } { "green" 100 } { "blue" 0 } }

        T{ color red: 123 green: 100 blue: 0 }

A savings of 15 characters. And this is a small tuple with short names.

The per slot character overhead in the longer version is 7, versus 2 for the 
shorter version.

I'm strongly in favor of this syntax. :-)

Ed

PS: Dan's 'tuple-syntax' library implements the syntax that I'm in favor of.