Re: Suggestion: Syntactic sugar for Maps!

circularfunc:

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} ?

Well, one problem is that we don't have a definitive Map library. Which kind of Map would you like? IntMap/Map/AVLTree? Some other tree? That said, you could certainly write a little preprocessor/quasiquoting/template haskell for dictionary literals. -- Don