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| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/eval.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 5127a9f390..0f848d0c27 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ List An ordered sequence of items |List|. Dictionary An associative, unordered array: Each entry has a key and a value. |Dictionary| - Example: {'blue': "#0000ff", 'red': "#ff0000"} + Examples: + {'blue': "#0000ff", 'red': "#ff0000"} + #{blue: "#0000ff", red: "#ff0000"} The Number and String types are converted automatically, depending on how they are used. @@ -436,8 +438,14 @@ only appear once. Examples: > A key is always a String. You can use a Number, it will be converted to a String automatically. Thus the String '4' and the number 4 will find the same entry. Note that the String '04' and the Number 04 are different, since the -Number will be converted to the String '4'. The empty string can be used as a -key. +Number will be converted to the String '4'. The empty string can also be used +as a key. + *literal-Dict* +To avoid having to put quotes around every key the #{} form can be used. This +does require the key to consist only of ASCII letters, digits, '-' and '_'. +Example: > + let mydict = #{zero: 0, one_key: 1, two-key: 2, 333: 3} +Note that 333 here is the string "333". Empty keys are not possible with #{}. A value can be any expression. Using a Dictionary for a value creates a nested Dictionary: > |