DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[CJS]

> Well, it is in the sense that it _is_ a deficiency of built-in 
> AAs for those
> who want to be able to use different implementations for 
> different use cases,
> but it's not something that can actually be fixed, and having 
> to use a library
> solution isn't exactly all that bad anyway, especially when 
> most languages
> don't have AAs built-in in the first place. It's just a 
> convenience feature.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thanks for the dicussion! I thankfully haven't run into problems 
with needed highly optimized assiociative arrays, but it's good 
to know what the limitations are and why.