Allowing the for member syntax to enumerate key/value pairs in a map.

Given the new `for member` syntax support for enumerating over the items in
an array, it would be useful to have an easy way of enumerating over the
key/value pairs in a map. This could be done through the same `for member`
syntax, but the members for a map would be a 2-item sequence or a map of
the key/value pairs in the map in an implementation-defined stable order.

If the variant of this proposal to use a map for the key/value pairs is
used, then given a map of type `map(K, V)` the member RecordTest would be
`record(key as K, value as V)`. For a `map(*)` type, the member RecordTest
would be `record(key, value)`.

Combined with sequence/map/array decomposition, this would allow a user to
write expressions like:

    for member ${key, value} in $map
    return ``[`{$key}`=`{value}`]``

It may be useful to have a different keyword to denote maps, such as
`entry` like JavaScript and Java, or `item` like Python, but using `member`
for both arrays and maps would be more consistent with the user wanting to
enumerate over the content of those data structures.

Kind regards,
Reece

Received on Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:24:45 UTC