Suggestion: Syntactic sugar for Maps!

[John Meacham]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 07:59:08PM +0100, circ ular wrote:
> I suggest Haskell introduce some syntactic sugar for Maps.
> 
> Python uses {"this": 2, "is": 1, "a": 1, "Map": 1}
> 
> Clojure also use braces: {:k1 1 :k2 3} where whitespace is comma but
> commas are also allowed.
> 
> I find the import Data.Map and then fromList [("hello",1), ("there",
> 2)] or the other form that I forgot(because it is to long!) to be to
> long...
> 
> So why not {"hello": 1, "there": 2} ?

it is hard to see much benefit over something like this:

x ==> y = (x,y)

myMap = fromList [
        "hello" ==> 1,
        "there" ==> 2
        ]


        John


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