Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Mi., 16. Dez. 2020, 18:38:
> Just for fun I wanted to see what people thought about a potential "pair" > type added to the compiler. Dictionaries have proven themselves to be a > fundamental type we use often and they are appearing as built-in syntax in > many languages, especially scripting languages that allow dynamic object > construction. > > So my idea was a potential "pair of ..." type added to the compiler which > accepts pair literals in the format of "key: value". The underlying > structure would be a record like "_Pair". > > The primary reason for this is so we can construct dictionaries easier but > they could also be used for other reasons, although I'm not sure that would > be sensible. > > Seems like low hanging fruit to me but I'm curious what other people think. > This can simply be done using existing language constructs, no need to introduce anything new. Regards, Sven
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