Power7: Dictionary and list literals

re: Power7: Dictionary and list literals

Shimmy Weitzhandler — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:32:37 GMT

First idea: I like it but I think it's too late.

Second idea: I do think it's compelling, but why not just have an IEnumarable(Of T) constructor-parameter so it ports it to this one

Kyralessa — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:19:02 GMT

I like these ideas. They save typing but are still easy to understand at first glance.

Đonny — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:08:38 GMT

I like both ideas - dictionary initializers and list initializers.

One more idea, scenario I often miss, is less verbose possibility to initialize array or list of any non-abstract type. Imagine this:

Public Class SomeClass

Public Sub New (ByVal a As Integer, ByVal b As String, ByVal c as Char)

End Sub

End Class

Dim arr As SomeClass() = {New SomeClass(7, "7", "7"c), New SomeClass(0, "0", "0"c), New SomeClass(66, "xx", "*"c)}

Would it be nice to type something shorter instead, like:

Dim arr As SomeClass() = {{7, "7", "7"c}, {0, "0", "0"c}, {66, "xx", "*"c}}