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Maps

Maps are simple key/value pair structures, they translate to JSON Objects.

Example

introduction = {
  "greeting": "hello",
  "subject": "world"
}

Difference between Blocks and Maps

When translated to JSON, both Blocks and Maps become plain objects, they however differ in the following ways:

Blocks

• designed as a structural construct
• support @directives at their root
• cannot be piped
• tolerant syntax (commas are optional)

Example

block {
  @directive

  key   = "value"
  key2  = "value2"
}

Maps

• designed as a value
• strict syntax (mandatory commas, keys are strings)
• do not support @directives at their root
• can be piped

Example

map = {
  "key": "value",
  "key2": "value2"
}