Associative array of const items
Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 1 08:48:12 PDT 2016
On Friday, 1 July 2016 at 06:57:59 UTC, QAston wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 17:08:45 UTC, Jonathan Marler
> wrote:
>> Is there a way to have an associative array of const values? I
>> thought it would have been:
>>
>> const(T)[K] map;
>> map[x] = y;
>>
>> but the second line gives Error: cannot modify const
>> expression. I would think that the const(T)[K] would behave
>> similarly to const(T)[], where you can modify the array, just
>> not the individual elements, but associative arrays don't seem
>> to have the same semantics. Is there a way to achieve these
>> semantics with an associative array?
>
> You can use std.typecons.Rebindable!(const T)[K].
I think this may have been exactly what I was looking for. Cool
that the language supports adding these kind of semantics through
a library. I'll try it out and see if it works. Thanks for the
tip.
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