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| author | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2020-09-21 15:34:22 +0530 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@centricular.com> | 2020-09-21 15:36:24 +0530 |
| commit | 94ea9d97bece30f209665032850ad0920b461170 (patch) | |
| tree | 01a889b2d7bff6df8322558b941c37872ea389be | |
| parent | 13a8e1d26eec91b9157aa21ee97e6c0844fd77d0 (diff) | |
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docs: Clarify what literal strings mean [skip ci]
Someone on IRC was confused by this paragraph.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md index bbe3dbb..64ec6db 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Syntax.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Syntax.md @@ -366,8 +366,9 @@ The following methods are defined for all arrays: ## Dictionaries Dictionaries are delimited by curly braces. A dictionary can contain an -arbitrary number of key value pairs. Keys are required to be strings, values can -be objects of any type. Prior to *0.53.0* keys were required to be literal strings. +arbitrary number of key: value pairs. Keys are required to be strings, but values can +be objects of any type. Prior to *0.53.0* keys were required to be literal +strings, i.e., you could not use a variable containing a string value as a key. ```meson my_dict = {'foo': 42, 'bar': 'baz'} |