Structs and assiciative arrays
Simen Haugen
simen at norstat.no
Mon Apr 23 07:15:30 PDT 2007
I just hunted quite some time for a bug that was because I'm using structs
as the key for associative arrays.
It worked without problem for a long time, and now after I added a string to
the struct the associative array wouldnt work.
I found in the documentation:
" If the KeyType is a struct type, a default mechanism is used to compute
the hash and comparisons of it based on the binary data within the struct
value. A custom mechanism can be used by providing the following functions
as struct members:"
uint toHash();
int opCmp(KeyType* s);
After I implemented these everything worked fine.
I wrote a simple test to check if it was because of the string, but
everything worked in my testcase. So I'm wondering what actually broke it...
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