What languages provide the use of object literals? (Or in what languages could you easily emulate them?) Can you give a code example?
Starting with the obvious javascript snippet:
var someObj = {
someProperty: 123,
someFunction: function() {
alert('hello!');
}
};
If you replace object by "term," then Prolog does this naturally (in fact, there's no other way to construct an object). Here's an example featuring binary trees:
% find a node in List with a nil left child and call its rightmost grandchild X
member(node(nil,node(_,X)), List).
Lisp and Scheme also have some pretty advances features in this area, particularly quoting and semiquoting:
;; construct right-leaning binary tree with x as the rightmost grandchild
`(nil . (nil . ,x))
Practically all functional programming languages have copied this in some form.