About collection handling about autodsl HOT 7 OPEN

Juan thanks for the feedback! It's an interesting point! To be honest I need to think about to add this feature as I'm not 100% sure if this could bring other confusions on how to use Collections. Still feel free to send a PR, I think will be a great starting point to review it in more details.

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This style is how I do my builders, no need for the +, just the function call adds to its owner's collection.

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Hey something like this (list is mutable to keep example short)

data class Person(
    var name: String? = null,
    var age: Int? = null,
    var friends: MutableList<Person> = mutableListOf())

fun person(body: Person.() -> Unit) = Person().apply(body)
fun Person.friends(body: MutableList<Person>.() -> Unit) = body(friends)
fun MutableList<Person>.person(body: Person.() -> Unit) = add(Person().apply(body))

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    val me = person {
        name = "Juan"
        age = 29

        friends {

            person {
                name = "Jhon"
                age = 31
            }

            person {
                name = "David"
                age = 31
            }
        }
    }

    println(me.toString())
}

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Hi Juan!
Interesting, I'm curious how are you achieving to add each person in the list with this syntax. Can you share the code here so I can see how did you do it? Specially the signature of the friends context to be able to add each "person".

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If you consider it good and give me some context about expected changes I can submit a pr for this

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+1 from me, the + only adds confusion at best IMHO. I tend to use the same style with @apatrida e.g. in vaultaire

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I agree, would be nice to work without +!

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