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

[Tejas]

On Thursday, 6 January 2022 at 16:01:09 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 January 2022 at 12:04:12 UTC, HuskyNator wrote:
>> On Monday, 28 November 2016 at 14:41:44 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, 28 November 2016 at 09:06:34 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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...
>>>
>>>  Wasn't someone working on a Associative Array static type 
>>> that could be created at CTFE and run at runtime?
>>
>> I'm guessing there isn't.
>> Sadly still running into issues because of this :(
>
> Actually I did a DMD patch for that some time ago.
>
> It's here: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/13087
>
> If there is interest in this I might revive it.

I feel like this should be done, if only for the sake of 
consistency

We can add an idiom about how initializing large AAs can lead to 
binary bloat, so use the `shared static this(){}` workaround 
instead

Would you please revise it? I'll take your side on this.