Safe to remove AA elements while iterating over it via .byKeyValue?
Per Nordlöw
per.nordlow at gmail.com
Sun Sep 27 20:43:19 UTC 2020
On Sunday, 27 September 2020 at 14:23:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> No. Modifying a container while iterating over it is, in
> general, a bad idea (unless the container is designed to be
> used that way, but even then, such removal is generally
> restricted), because it often leads to highly counterintuitive
> results. In the case of AA's, removing an element may lead to
> a rehashing, which reorders elements, and your iteration may
> miss some elements or repeat some elements or terminate
> prematurely. Even without a rehashing, you may encounter
> inconsistent behaviours, like some elements going "missing".
I believe it's high time we start thinking about detecting these
violations at compile-time. I recall it's in the spec somewhere
so we should start a deprecation process at least for AAs.
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