struct NamedTuple(**T)

• NamedTuple(**T)
• Value
• Object

Overview

A named tuple is a fixed-size, immutable, stack-allocated mapping of a fixed set of keys to values.

You can think of a NamedTuple as an immutable Hash whose keys (which are of type Symbol), and the types for each key, are known at compile time.

A named tuple can be created with a named tuple literal:

language = {name: "Crystal", year: 2011} # NamedTuple(name: String, year: Int32)

language[:name]  # => "Crystal"
language[:year]  # => 2011
language[:other] # compile time error

The compiler knows what types are in each key, so when indexing a named tuple with a symbol literal the compiler will return the value for that key and with the expected type, like in the above snippet. Indexing with a symbol literal for which there's no key will give a compile-time error.

Indexing with a symbol that is only known at runtime will return a value whose type is the union of all the types in the named tuple, and might raise KeyError.

Defined in:

core_ext/named_tuple.cr

Instance Method Summary

• #merge(other : NamedTuple?)

Instance Method Detail