Re: [Jolie-devel] Jolie 1.2 - Inline trees

[Matthias D. W. <mwa...@ya...>]

We could also try to imitate "with", which requires the semicolons, but
its block content is also not limited to assignments.

> with ( animals ){
> 	.pet[ 0 ].name = "cat";
> 	.pet[ 1 ].name = "dog";
>       println@Console(.pet[0].name)();
> 	.wild[ 0 ].name = "tiger";
> 	.wild[ 1 ].name = "lion"
> }

Saverio Giallorenzo schrieb:
> If I may toss an idea, what about making the syntax of inline trees as
> close al possible to that of type declaration?
> 
> E.g., we have type
> 
> type myType: string {
> .x[ 1, * ]: int
> .y[ 1, 3 ]: void {
> .value*: double
> .comment: string
> }
> }
> 
> and we write
> 
> myTree << "Root" {
> .x[0]=1
> .x[1]=2
> .y << {
> .value[0]=1.1
> .value[1]=2.1
> .value[2]=3.1
> .comment = "This is a comment"
> }
> }
> 
> Granted a comma does not make such a big difference, as an user I would
> wander why one syntax needs the comma and the other does not.
> 
> BTW, should the deep-copy operator work inside inline trees or shall we
> allow only assignments?
> 
> Best,
> sg
> 
> 
> On 12 March 2015 at 10:10, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer
> <mwa...@ya... <mailto:mwa...@ya...>> wrote:
> 
>     ";" is more about sequential execution for us, "," is our delimiter
>     (consider also "for") so I would stuck with ",".
> 
>     Matthias
> 
> 
>     Fabrizio Montesi <fam...@gm... <mailto:fam...@gm...>>
>     schrieb am 9:30 Donnerstag, 12.März 2015:
> 
> 
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     Any ideas on my last comment in the e-mail (comma vs semi-colon)?
>     I'd like some feedback on that particular syntax before making it
>     official on the docs site.
> 
>     Even an "I like it" would make me feel better. Break the silence. ;-)
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Fabrizio
> 
> 
>     On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Fabrizio Montesi
>     <fam...@gm... <mailto:fam...@gm...>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
>     >
>     >I committed a series of patches I had lingering around for a while
>     on inline trees.
>     >
>     >Now we can write stuff like this:
>     >
>     >a.left << "Left" { .x = 1, .y = 2, .y.left = "y_l", .y.right = "y_r" };
>     >
>     >
>     >valueToPrettyString@StringUtils( { .x = 1, .y = 2 } )( s );
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >This is obtained by introducing a new kind of expression
>     (InlineTreeExpression) that takes a value for the root node and a
>     series of assignments in between curly brackets { }.
>     >
>     >
>     >You can thus write an inline tree wherever you can write an expression.
>     >
>     >
>     >Let me know what you think.
>     >
>     >
>     >In particular, I tried to follow what they do in other language by
>     using the comma to separate assignments, but I'm not very happy that
>     it is inconsistent with what we do in protocol configurations where
>     we use ; instead.
>     >
>     >
>     >Feedback is welcome.
>     >
>     >
>     >Cheers,
>     >Fabrizio
> 
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