Associative array literal is non-constant?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:18:18PM -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Why does the following code give a compiler error?
> 
> 	static int[string] table = ["abc":1, "def":2, "ghi":3];
> 
> Error message is:
> 
> 	prog.d:3: Error: non-constant expression ["abc":1,"def":2,"ghi":3]
> 
> How is a literal non-constant?
[...]

Ugh. Just found this:

	http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6238

Further testing shows that assoc array literals can't be used outside of
function scope at all, for example:

	// (in package scope)
	auto hash = [ "abc":1, "def":2, "ghi":3 ];
		// Error: non-constant expression ["abc":1,"def":2,"ghi":3]

Seems like a pretty nasty bug to me.


T

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