> So I really don't think this feature would be usable with sigils. Yeah, sure, I was just trying to think of examples of the top of my head, I’m sure it would still have a lot of limitations, but I think it would be worth the try.
> No, they are enforced by the language. I see. I vote for only caring for the first letter then. > So this is a separate discussion but what I'd rather see is another sigil > like mechanism for structs that would make these valid: > > URI[https://elixir-lang.org] <https://elixir-lang.org]>] Why not actually using sigils for that? With multi letter sigils we could do that. Would you want to automatically import that? If that’s the case, maybe a better syntax for the feature would be something like: `%URI”https://elixir-lang.org <https://elixir-lang.org/>”`, so that would delegate the construction to a `from_string` function (or macro) on the module for example. Anyway, I like your idea too, but as you mentioned, that would not address my concern, as PIDs are not structs, so I think that multi letter sigils would be the way to go for that, since it looks like adding one more one letter sigil for it will not get accepted. Best, Kelvin Stinghen kelvin.sting...@me.com > On Oct 25, 2019, at 04:00, José Valim <jose.va...@plataformatec.com.br> wrote: > > Maybe*. Sigils follow the rules for strings, so they are not really good for > handling code and this was one of the lessons learned by the shorter_maps > project. For example, imagine you want to do this: > > ~Project{id ~Manager{id}} > > It doesn't really work because you have to escape the closing } inside the > manager. Sure, you could alternate {...} with <...> or something else, but > that's precisely the point. Sigils are strings, and they are not structured > text, so you have to escape and handle delimiters accordingly. > > The other issue is that sigils are currently lexical, so you would have to > import the lexical sigil for every struct before your shorter maps proposal. > So I really don't think this feature would be usable with sigils. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/6ACCD0A4-30C6-4E47-852F-FC4A16EB5CB3%40gmail.com.
