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hashes and lists and other data structures
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The current idea for shorthand notation:

lists:
[ 1, 2, 3, 4]

hash:
{ "foo":1, "bar":2, 3:"baz" }

problem:
{} is used to group statements, which makes it very hard to parse.


Solution #1:
lists:
[ 1, 2, 3, 4]

hash:
[ "foo":1, "bar":2, 3:"baz" ]

We can parse them correctly, since they don't interfere with compound statements, but what would this be:

$a = [];  // hash or list?


Solution #2

We provide a generic shorthand notation for datastructures:

<datastructure>[<values>]

hash["foo":1,"bar":2]
list[1,2,3,4]
set[1,2,3,4]
bloomfilter[1,5,5,6]


hash, list, set and bloomfilter are regular classes.

// Example 1:
if 5 in bloomfilter[1,2,3,4,5] {
	io.printf("It might be here");
} else {
	io.printf("It's definately not here");
}

// Example 2:
$a = list[1,2,3];
$b = $a + list[4,5,6];   // $b = list[1,2,3,4,5,6]


// Example 3
$a = set[1,2,3];
$b = $a + set[1,3,4];   // $b = set[1,2,3,4]


// Example 4
$a = list[1,1,1,2,3,3];
$b = set[$a];   // $b = set[1,2,3]


$item = $b[0];        // fetch first index from set
$count = $b.length()  // 3