bug in doc?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 03:22:52PM +0100, spir via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> https://dlang.org/spec/hash-map.html#static_initialization:
> 
> immutable long[string] aa = [
>   "foo": 5,
>   "bar": 10,
>   "baz": 2000
> ];
> 
> ==> Error: non-constant expression `["foo":5L, "bar":10L, "baz":2000L]`
> 
> Also: I don't understand the error message:
> * What is non-constant in the *expression*?
> * And why should it be constant at all?
> (Removing "immutable" does not help...)
[...]

It's a well-known limitation.  The workaround is:

	immutable long[string] aa;
	static this() {
		aa = [
			"foo" : 5,
			...
		];
	}


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