On 2015-08-17 22:33, Josh Berkus wrote:
> So, both perl and python do not allow "deep nesting" of assignments.
> For example:
>>>> d = { "a" : { } }
>>>> d["a"]["a1"]["a2"] = 42
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> KeyError: 'a1'
Not sure I understand what you mean. In Perl you'd do
$ perl -e '%d = (a => {}); $d{a}{a1}{a2} = 42; print $d{a}{a1}{a2}'
42
which looks pretty much like what's proposed.
/kaare