[erlang-questions] Re: Special syntax for dictionaries

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

Would not using ":" make it look like a function call (to another
module)?


bengt

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 00:02 +0200, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> > My proposal for 'frames' has been sitting around for years.
> > I would write that as
> >         <{ author ~ "Mike"
> >          , text   ~ "My first blog post!"
> >          , tags   ~ ["mongodb","python","pymongo"]
> >          , date   ~ erlang:now()
> >         }>
> 
> As much as I dislike the double bracketing I can see the necessity. Is
> there any reason why using the more common choice of ":" to delimit
> the keys and values would be a problem (instead of "~")?
> 
> For example: <{author: "Mike", text: "My first blog post!"...}>
> 
> Tim
> 
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