Request: allow {"": x, "hyphen-ated": y, ".sub": z} literals

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My request is simple, it fits the 60-char limit of the subject line. But in more words: please extend the implementation of hash-dictionary literals, so that string literals can be used as key names, besides identifiers. … and it wouldn’t even require documentation change, since it is mum on what is allowed as key in AA literal. :sunglasses:

If we get BNF-y and say interpreter allows for

HashLiteral = '{' KeyValPair  (PairSeparator KeyValPair)* PairSeparator? '}'
PairSeparator = (',' | '\n') '\n'*
KeyValPair = IDENT ':' Expression

(* then change previous to *)
KeyValPair = (IDENT | STRLIT) ':' Expression

That was awfully formal. I think better will be to show requested feature in illustrative example, so here:


myForm = {
    "": "form"
    action: "/search/ccc" 
    method: "get" 
    "accept-charset": "utf-8"
    id: "searchform" 
    ".nodes": [
        {   "": "input", 
            id: "query", 
            name: "query", 
            "data-suggest": "search", 
            autocorrect: "off", 
            placeholder: "search" 
        }
    ]
}