Associative Array Question

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 12/31/20 8:54 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 1 January 2021 at 01:43:50 UTC, Chris Bare wrote:
>>         a1[10] = "testing a1";
> 
> this actually constructs a new thing since it is a straight x = y 
> assignment.
> 
>>         a2[10].name = "testing a2";
> 
> But this looks up something first. It doesn't construct a2[10], it looks 
> it up first to fetch the name member... hence the range violation since 
> it isn't constructed yet.
> 
> 
>>         a3[10] = new Project;
> 
> and this again will construct since it is a straight x = y again.
> 
> 
> 
> So you could also do
> 
> a2[10] = Person()
> 
> then do the lookup of name

or a2[10] = Person(null, "testing a2")

-Steve