More About Syntax

The plasmic Python-like language contains almost no expression evaluation. The single, optional, expression allowed is a string.Formmatter.format() formatting syntax used for interpolation – the insertion of of data into values by reference to Plasmic dictionary keys.

As a convenience all dictionary entries keyed by symbols have their keys converted to the lower case string equivalent. The following 2 examples are equivalent:

Note

The following is here only as an example. It is bad practice in Plasmic to write symbols containing upper case letters.

A configuration with symbols for keys:

{section1:
  {key1: "value1",
   key2: 2},
 Section2:
  {Key1: "othervalue",
   KEY3: 3.0}
}

The identical configuration with strings for keys:

{"section1":
  {"key1": "value1",
   "key2": 2},
 "section2":
  {"key1": "othervalue",
   "key3": 3.0}
}

Although the symbols are written in mixed case the end result is a dictionary keyed with strings in lower case.