Cannot initialize associative array.

Bernard Helyer b.helyer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 15:01:40 PDT 2010


On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:32:48 +0000, dcoder wrote:

> Sorry, I forgot to put some compiler output:
> 
> For the declaration: uint[string] mywords = [ "Hello" : 1, "World" : 1,
> "Cat" : 1, "Dog" : 1 ];
> 
> 
> I get:
> 
> $ dmd test_01.d
> test_01.d(3): Error: non-constant expression
> ["Hello":1u,"World":1u,"Cat":1u,"Dog":1u]

AAs can't be assigned to at compile time (:[). You'll have to use a 
static constructor or an initiliasation function to assign to one at 
global scope.



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