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Re:Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst by mcanouil on Monday June 22, 2026 @07:46AM (#48628875)
With a constructor, you get to document/validate. A plain dictionary makes this harder or virtually impossible (you most often will silently fail).

https://m.canouil.dev/gribouille/reference/core/aes.html

I already drifted apart from ggplot2/plotnine in many ways, I don't mind as long as it's not confusing.

I've opened a GitHub issue about this question (no ansers at this point): https://github.com/mcanouil/gribouille/issues/143

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Re:Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst by stared on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:40AM (#48630818)
> A plain dictionary makes this harder or virtually impossible (you most often will silently fail)

I didn't know about these Typst restrictions. Silent fails are the worst, so if a constructor is necessary to prevent these, good it is there.

Thanks for explaining! (And for developing gribouille in the first place!)

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