On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 18:13, Yair Lenga wrote:
> Thanks for providing feedback and expanding with new ideas.
>
> I believe the summary is:
>
> ${a.key1.key2} - Static fields
> ${a.key1.$key2} - Mixed dynamic/static, simple substitution.
> ${a.key1.{complex.$key2}} - For complex keys that may co
Another comment:
While it’s important to use “natural” access, I believe it is ok to have a
command to set values inside the h-value. It does not have to be supported as
part of …=… , which has lot of history, rule, interaction with env var, etc. I
think something like:
hset var.foo.bar=value
Thanks for providing feedback and expanding with new ideas.
I believe the summary is:
${a.key1.key2} - Static fields
${a.key1.$key2} - Mixed dynamic/static, simple substitution.
${a.key1.{complex.$key2}} - For complex keys that may contain anything
${a.key1[expr].key2] - expr is evaluated in num
Some things do indeed come down to personal preference, where there are no
right answers. Then Chet or his successor gets to pick.
Keep in mind that most or all of my suggestions are gated on not being in
backwards-compatibility mode, and that compat mode itself would be
lexically scoped. With tha
Martin brings up several good points, and I think it's worth figuring out
the direction of the implementation. Bash currently does not have good
syntax for H-values, so a new one is needed. It does not make sense to have
a completely new one, as there are few accepted syntax - python,
JavaScript, P
Rather than var[i1.i2.i3] I suggest a C-like var[i1][i2][i3] as that avoids
ambiguity for associative arrays whose keys might include ".", and makes it
simpler to add floating point arithmetic later.
I would like to allow space in the syntax to (eventually) distinguish
between an object with a fai
Putting aside the effort to implement, it might be important to think on
how the h-data structure will be used by users. For me, the common use case
will be to implement a simple, small "record" like structure to make it
easier to write readable code. Bash will never be able to compete with
Python/
