http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Goodwill, The issue is with the language support, mainly. http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment9http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment9Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:10:32 GMTYou lurked me a lot on this :( too bad its not real yet. For the question you ask, I think you might follow what ruby has done. :foo =>:fubar, cleanest and distinguish between variable and string literal (You dont even need =>, make it = is good enough) http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment8http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment8Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:03:31 GMT@Cedric, No, should I? There is a chance of collision if you have: foo = "bar" hash = { foo: "fubar" } What should the value be? http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment7http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment7Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:04:22 GMTDarn cool.... I wonder NVelocity can get something similar.... currently its: "%{name='value'}" I always come across missing literal errors :( could be my poor typing... http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment6http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment6Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:24:29 GMTNiiice. Have you opened a JIRA wish for inclusion of this handy trick in boo? :) http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment5http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment5Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:24:00 GMTTobin, yes, that is what I was aiming for. And yes, I would have little issue in using this for production. The IDE is #Develop, which isn't as polished as VS, but I find that the language more than make up for it. http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment4http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment4Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:59:10 GMTAlmost, you can do this: component Grid, {@source: users} I don't like the @ in the middle of it. http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment3http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment3Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:47:09 GMTNice trick! Reminds me or the Ruby style literals which I agree make for much more readable code... class customer has_one :account mas_many :orders end I'd like to try Boo out, would you recommend it for use in commercial projects at this stage? http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment2http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment2Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:42:39 GMTI thought we could do this already with Brail. This is how I pass configurations to ViewComponents, no? http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment1http://ayende.com/2541/boo-trick-even-nicer-hash-literals#comment1Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT