Why can't I resize an array of associative arrays?

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 13:13:55 PST 2008


It's a bug.
With a patch sitting in the tracker.
Please vote for it! (Though it's already #2 by votes)
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=929

--bb

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Justin <mrjnewt at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to have an array (plain vanilla) of associate arrays. I'm thinking of it as a sort of table, with the header for each column being the key of the element. Strangely, though, the following program simply doesn't work; it doesn't crash--it just hangs (before printing out the array length).
>
> module test2;
>
> import std.stdio,
>        std.string;
>
> static void main() {
>
>        string[string][] arrayOfAAs;
>        arrayOfAAs.length = 9;
>        writefln(arrayOfAAs.length);
>
> }
>


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