bluss/maplit

Allow `:` for hashmaps

allengrant opened this issue · 0 comments

We will be very grateful. Little stylistic changes can have a big impact on workflows.

This will help transition users from other languages, including myself, since this is the syntax in almost every language that supports literals—Go, Python, JavaScript, Ruby.

The implementation is tricky. This is already workable:

macro_rules! map{
    ( $($key:tt : $val:expr),* $(,)? ) =>{{
        #[allow(unused_mut)]
        let mut map = ::std::collections::HashMap::with_capacity(hashmap!(@count $($key),* ));
        $(
            #[allow(unused_parens)]
            let _ = map.insert($key, $val);
        )*
        map
    }};
    (@replace $_t:tt $e:expr ) => { $e };
    (@count $($t:tt)*) => { <[()]>::len(&[$( map!(@replace $t ()) ),*]) }
}
let map = map!{ 1: "one", 2: "two" }; 

Handling complex expressions probably requires procedural macros.

h/t https://stackoverflow.com/a/71541479/13349653