[bitc-dev] Types that introduce new literals

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM, John Zabroski <johnzabroski at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.org>wrote:
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>> Other than bit sets and enumerations, what **commonly used** types want to
>> introduce new, named literals?
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>> [and unions, for constructors]
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>> shap
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> If you are asking about programming languages in general, then "syntax for
> hashes" has to be up there....
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That's not quite what I meant.

Enumerations are one example - the enumerands are new bindings.

Bit sets having named elements are another - a series of bindings gets
introduced for the individual bit names.

Unions introduce leg constructors.

What other commonly used constructs introduce multiple named elements in a
single declaration in that sort of way?


Jonathan
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