#crystal

In Crystal, as well as in Ruby you can use double splat arguments. Unfortunately they behave a bit different.

def foo(**options)

  baz(**options, a: 1)

end



def baz(**options)

  puts options

end



foo(b: 2, a: 3) # {:b=>2, :a=>1} 

This code in Ruby works as it should. If we try the same in Crystal (https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/7r0l), we got an error:

error in line 2

Error: duplicate key: a

This happens because **options is a NamedTuple and it cannot have duplicate keys. I found that using NamedTuple#merge can be a workaround (https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/r/7s1c):

def foo(**options)

  baz(**options.merge(a: 1))

end



def baz(**options)

  puts options

end



foo(b: 2, a: 3) # {:b=>2, :a=>1} 

Hack!

We use microservice written in Crystal to parse large CSV files (about 1.5Gb). Some rows in these files may contain no closed " characters:

,Y,FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION "F,,

With Crystal default CSV parse settings this row and everything after it won't be parsed correctly because DEFAULT_QUOTE_CHAR constant is equal to ". Of couse you can override quote_char param in CSV contstructor with something that cannot be found in your document.

From my point of view the best is to use zero byte which is '\u0000' in Crystal.

csv = CSV.new(file, headers: true, strip: true, quote_char: '\u0000')

while csv.next

  # ... 

end

Hack!