How to merge two dictionaries in MiniScript and other languages

jstrout

I stumbled across this post explaining how to merge two dictionaries in Python.

Good gravy. I try not to disparage other languages, but... seriously, go read that post, which goes on at great length about the various ways to do this operation, the simplest of which (newly available in Python 3.5!) is

powers = {**yusuke_power, **hiei_power}

Then consider that in MiniScript, this would be

powers = yusuke_power + hiei_power

😁

jstrout

And in C# it's even worse, because most simple/obvious solutions will throw errors if the same key occurs in both dictionaries. The best solutions available are to write your own custom function to do it.

jstrout

And it's no clearer in Lua, either.

I need to stop. 🙂

jstrout

All this inspired me to add a new page (Associative array/Merging) to RosettaCode last night. As of this morning, there are now implementations in 10 different languages! 🙂 So go there if you're curious to see more.