The Hash Mappening
It has been decided between @mmstick and I (and with good input from @ids1024) that hash maps are to be created and parsed from using type annotations like hmap[]
, as in the following:
let hash_map:hmap[] = [key1=value1 key2=value2]
Hash map access is also done as the following:
# echo hash_map[key1]
value1
# let hash_map[key1] = value3
# echo hash_map[key1]
value3
This simplifies the proposed syntax as mentioned in #246 (closed) and doesn't require adding a new keyword for the same effect as what I am doing.
This is work-in-progress, as I plan to support hmap[int]
, hmap[float]
, hmap[int[]]
, etc type annotations. Using hmap[]
defaults to hmap[any]
or hmap[str]
.
The keys in the hash maps are always string types, but the value types are identified by the type specified between the [
and ]
.
Closes #246 (closed)
Edited by Michael Aaron Murphy