Sorry, I just love templates, AAs and mixins :)

[Saaa]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> grauzone wrote:
>> Saaa wrote:
>>> public void addToAA(char[] var_name, KT, ET)(KT key, ET element)
>>> {
>>>   mixin(ET.stringof~`[]* elements = key in `~var_name~`;`);
>>>   if( elements == null )
>>>   {
>>>     ET[] temp;
>>>     temp.length = 1;
>>>     temp[0] = element;
>>>     mixin(var_name~`[key] = temp;`);
>>>   }
>>>   else
>>>   {
>>>     (*elements).length = (*elements).length + 1;
>>>     (*elements)[(*elements).length-1] = element;
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>
>> It's unreadable.
>
> No it isn't. It's an obfusticated version of
>
> if( key in var) var[key] ~= element;
> else var[key] = [element];

No, it isn't. It's obfusticated version of the generic version of that code 
:)
I always forget ~= and somehow [] with a single variable in it looks 
strange, my bad!

So, thanks!
This is why I posted it in the first place; could you maybe look over DData 
as well :)

I somehow like that I can tell the compiler precisely(mixins) how to 
generate generic(templates) code..

>
> but who wants to write that boring code? :)
Isn't your code slower because it always needs to search for the key twice 
:P

Here is the new and improved version :

public void addToAAA(char[] var_name, KT, ET)(KT key, ET element)
{
  mixin(ET.stringof~`[]* elements = key in `~var_name~`;`);
  if( elements == null )
  {
    mixin(var_name~`[key] = [element];`);
  }
  else
  {
    (*elements) ~= element;
  }
}