Assigning global and static associative arrays

[Mike Parker]

On 9/1/2012 1:31 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 8/31/2012 11:38 PM, ixid wrote:
>> Why does this not work:
>>
>> int[string] dayNumbers =
>>          [ "Monday"   : 0, "Tuesday" : 1, "Wednesday" : 2,
>>            "Thursday" : 3, "Friday"  : 4, "Saturday"  : 5,
>>            "Sunday"   : 6 ];
>>
>> void main() {
>>      //Stuff
>> }
>>
>> With the error 'non-constant expression'? This error also seems to
>> prevent me making static associative arrays in functions elegantly.
>
> Non-const variables cannot be initialized at module-scope. If you don't
> need to modify the aa, declaring it immutable should allow the
> initialization to work. Otherwise, you can initialize it using a static
> module constructor.
>
> int[string] dayNumbers;
>
> static this()
> {
>     dayNumbers = ...;
> }
>
> void main() {...}

Nevermind. I spoke too soon. It's the literal ["Monday" : 0, ...] that's 
not constant. You'll have to use the module constructor.