using tuple as value type for associative array

[Computermatronic]

On Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 02:44:12 UTC, Flaze07 wrote:
> when I do
> Tuple!(uint, "first", uint, "second")[string] what; //I tried 
> aliasing the tuple as well
> what["something"].first = 20;
> I get range error
> but when I do
> uint[string] what2;
> what2 = 20;
> I get none of those range error, so...how do I use tuple as 
> value type for associative array ?

what["something"].first = 20 will attempt to get an element of 
what, then assign a member, while what2["something"] = 20 will 
add an element to what2 with the value of 20. Since 
what["something"] is not present, it will throw a range error.

Try what["something"] = tuple(20, 0); instead.