non-constant expression ["foo":5, "bar":10, "baz":2000]

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 27 November 2016 at 22:25:51 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 November 2016 at 17:37:57 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
> wrote:
>> This is stated in documentation [1]:
>>
>> immutable long[string] aa = [
>>   "foo": 5,
>>   "bar": 10,
>>   "baz": 2000
>> ];
>>
>> unittest
>> {
>>     assert(aa["foo"] == 5);
>>     assert(aa["bar"] == 10);
>>     assert(aa["baz"] == 2000);
>> }
>>
>> But results to:
>>
>>    Error: non-constant expression ["foo":5L, "bar":10L, 
>> "baz":2000L]
>>
>> Known bug?
>> If yes, Is there the need to emend the documentation, till the 
>> bug is open?
>> ---
>> /Paolo
>
> Known bug.
>
> If you need a workaround, initialising the variable at 
> load-time with `static this` should help in some cases.

Thank Joan,

The point is that I was trying to avoid some cycle between 
modules, detected by 2.072.
This bug leads to pollution in the use of static this only to 
workaround the limitation...

--
Paolo