Fields

These are the most common and fundamental pieces of data in the language.

They are a combination of four parts:

• identifier: the name of the field
• assignment operator: to assign the name to a value
• element: the fields' assigned value
• termination: to end the field declaration

name = "Will";
favorite-things = [ "Movies" "Programming" ];
favorite-movie = {
    title = "Interstellar";
    director = "Christopher Nolan";
    release-year = 2014;
    leading-roles = [
        {
            character = "Joseph Cooper";
            actor = "Matthew McConaughey";
        }
        {
            character = "Dr. Amelia Brand";
            actor = "Anne Hathaway";
        }
    ];
};

In this example, there are 11 fields in total. Let's break down the biggest one:

favorite-movie = {
    title = "Interstellar";
    director = "Christopher Nolan";
    release-year = 2014;
    leading-roles = [
        {
            character = "Joseph Cooper";
            actor = "Matthew McConaughey";
        }
        {
            character = "Dr. Amelia Brand";
            actor = "Anne Hathaway";
        }
    ];
};

Here, there are nine total fields including the favorite-movies map. Within it, there are eight fields:

The first element of leading-roles:

The second element of leading-roles