We would perhaps soon have the opportunity to introduce subscripts as an alternative to operators. Here are some hasty thoughts:
Pros:
Can record A LOT of metadata using implicit parameters
Perhaps looks nicer
Cons:
Requires some redesign (although I've wanted to move in this direction anyways)
Requires JSON type, does not work with Any. In a lot of ways this makes sense though.
I'm pretty sure this would work:
let v: String? = root["a"]["b"]?["c"]
a and b are allow null, c does not allow null
If you want "c" to allow null, you'd have to mark it explicitly with another syntax. Perhaps with
["key".allow(.null, .missingKey, ...)]
There is a choice here whether to have all subscripts returning JSON structs, or whether to construct KeyPaths for as long as possible. I don't think there is an obvious advantage to any; try-catch-path-appending shenanigans are unavoidable, and being able to construct KeyPaths is nice.
With conditional protocol conformance, the need to generate overloads would go a way, so it would probably be easy to keep supporting the operator syntax.
We would perhaps soon have the opportunity to introduce subscripts as an alternative to operators. Here are some hasty thoughts:
Pros:
Cons:
I'm pretty sure this would work:
If you want "c" to allow null, you'd have to mark it explicitly with another syntax. Perhaps with
There is a choice here whether to have all subscripts returning
JSONstructs, or whether to constructKeyPaths for as long as possible. I don't think there is an obvious advantage to any; try-catch-path-appending shenanigans are unavoidable, and being able to constructKeyPaths is nice.With conditional protocol conformance, the need to generate overloads would go a way, so it would probably be easy to keep supporting the operator syntax.