newbie question: Can D do this?

[Stewart Gordon]

On 20/12/2011 20:36, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
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> That is, it expects some values, then string/values couples as
> associative arrays.
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I've a recollection of seeing something like this in the PHP library, but I forget where. 
  I believe it's used in some functions that have a lot of options to set, such that 
you'll typically just want to set a few of them in a given call.

Stewart.