Re: [Webmacro-devel] Here's why I don't like the Map constructor stuff

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:23:27 -0400, Eric B. Ridge <eb...@tc...> wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 03:19  PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>
>>> #set $x = {}
>>
>> I _hate_ this syntax.  Too easy to conflict with blocks.
>
> The only other option is:
> #set $x = []
>
> and that conflicts with empty lists.  unless you want something goofy  
> like [{}] or [[]] or [!!] or ...

Or, how about the unusual:

#set $x = ][

:)

Actually [[ ... ]] seems quite good to me.

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