Where does this array come from ?

[Brian Goetz]

I'm fine with { ... } too; if we ever get map literals / patterns, they 
are far more likely to use { ... } than [ ... ].

On 4/6/2020 9:45 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> FWIW, a colleague has previously argued that the toString of a bean
> should be JSON. At a company he worked at, all their beans were JSON
> and it apparently allowed them to build tooling on top of the
> toString. I'm not sure I'm convinced about JSON, but I do think a
> record is closer to a map than a list. And yes, Joda-Beans uses {} not
> [].
> Stephen
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 14:01, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps we should rotate the punctuation every version just to discourage parsing :)
>>
>>> On Apr 6, 2020, at 7:34 AM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've was debugging a code yesterday that was printing
>>>   Empty[]
>>>
>>> After some head scratching, trying to find an array of Empty, i found that it was just an empty record
>>>   record Empty() { }
>>>
>>> This is another clue that using square brackets for toString() is a bad idea !
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Rémi