Associative Array Initalizers - Possible Syntax?

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cracki a écrit :
> Kirk McDonald Wrote:
>> I do not find this a compelling reason to require brackets or 
>> parentheses in all cases. I do like Nicolai's suggestion, though.
>> (It's very much like Python's syntax, and I believe has been
>> suggested before.)
> 
> 
> I agree. Requiring brackets makes not much sense. This is not lisp.
> We have operator precedence and we can make use of it. And if that
> fails, use parens. No big deal.
> 
> I also prefer the "[...]" style to the python/ruby/JSON "{...}"
> style. It's consistent with nromal array literals and spares the
> curlies from getting overloaded yet another time.

Agreed, if ':' conflicts too much with '? :' (and I don't think it does, 
parenthesis are here to avoid the problem) then let's use '->' or ':>' 
instead of ':', not a big deal.

Otherwise don't use any special syntax, after all, an associative array 
is a just list of key,value pair so

int tab[char[]] = [["key", 10], ["key2", 11]];

But I really dislike the idea of separating keys and values, sure 
sometimes this is terser but it's also much more likely to induce hard 
to find errors.

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