Array Append

[Paul]

On Friday, 8 June 2012 at 12:50:56 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 08.06.2012 16:42, Paul wrote:
>> On Friday, 8 June 2012 at 12:41:13 UTC, Paul wrote:
>>> If this works...
>>>
>>> D programming book section 4.1.9 Expanding
>>> auto a = [87, 40, 10];
>>> a ~= 42;
>>> assert(a== [87, 40, 10, 42]);
>>>
>>> why doesnt' this work?
>>>
>>> DeletedBlks ~= matchOld[0];
>>>
>>> the dmd compiler comes back with
>>> Error: cannot append type string to type string[ulong]
>>>
>>> Does this append operator only work for literals?
>>
> because it's associative array and it doesn't support 
> "appending" meaningfully ?
>
> AA with integer keys != plain arrays

string[ulong] is a standard array
ulong[string] would be associative....NO?