DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:43:53 -0400, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> But I think that they key issue with swapping out
> the implementation is not whether you can swap out the implementation  
> for your
> whole program but rather being able to choose different implementations  
> for
> different parts of your program.

This would never happen.  AAs are only ever going to be one  
implementation.  If you want to use another map type, you will have to use  
a struct/class.  I suppose AA's could simply be polymorphic, but I don't  
see the benefit.

-Steve