dhall-nix-lib/Map/Type.dhall

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{-|
This is the canonical way to encode a dynamic list of key-value pairs.
Tools (such as `dhall-to-json`/`dhall-to-yaml` will recognize values of this
type and convert them to maps/dictionaries/hashes in the target language
For example, `dhall-to-json` converts a Dhall value like this:
```
[ { mapKey = "foo", mapValue = 1 }
, { mapKey = "bar", mapValue = 2 }
] : ./Map Text Natural
```
... to a JSON value like this:
```
{ "foo": 1, "bar", 2 }
```
-}
let Map
: Type → Type → Type
= λ(k : Type) → λ(v : Type) → List { mapKey : k, mapValue : v }
in Map