Comment on Don't let dicts spoil your code (2020)parentComments−fastball4yCould you clarify a bit here? Python also has destructuring for its dicts and I'm not entirely sure what you mean by symbol keys.−andreareina4yPython has tuple destructuring, which can be used with dict.items(). I'm talking about being able to destructure by name not position: name, address = some_dict You could fake it if you could ask for a tuple of specific entries: name, address = some_dict.pluck("name", "address")−geysersam4ySymbol keys are string keys for the more sophisticated among us. See :some-name vs "some_name". ;)−iamevn4ythey're closer to a (namespace) global enum imo
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Could you clarify a bit here? Python also has destructuring for its dicts and I'm not entirely sure what you mean by symbol keys.
Python has tuple destructuring, which can be used with dict.items(). I'm talking about being able to destructure by name not position:
You could fake it if you could ask for a tuple of specific entries:Symbol keys are string keys for the more sophisticated among us. See :some-name vs "some_name". ;)
they're closer to a (namespace) global enum imo