{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12930","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12930/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12930/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12930/events","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12930","id":104706250,"number":12930,"title":"Reintroduce concise syntax for Dict construction?","user":{"login":"malmaud","id":987837,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/987837?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud","html_url":"https://github.com/malmaud","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/malmaud/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/labels/decision","name":"decision","color":"F08000"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-09-03T14:22:24Z","updated_at":"2015-09-03T14:39:56Z","closed_at":null,"body":"As dicussed in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/1bwx3fjSO5A, many are unhappy with how verbose Dict literal construction has become in 0.4. I'm aware there were real problems with the old syntax, but maybe we can still think of a way to allow a more parsimonious syntax going forward. "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/comments/137469626","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12930#issuecomment-137469626","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12930","id":137469626,"user":{"login":"stevengj","id":2913679,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2913679?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj","html_url":"https://github.com/stevengj","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stevengj/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-03T14:39:56Z","updated_at":"2015-09-03T14:39:56Z","body":"@malmaud, curly braces used to be `Any[...]`, and this needs to be deprecated for at least one major release before it can be repurposed."}}