Associative Array Initalizers - Possible Syntax?

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Nicolai Waniek Wrote:

> I don't like each version you provided. The most readable and D-ish (in
> comparison to static initialization) would be something like this example:
> 
> char[][][char[]] languageTokens =
>     [
>       "comments" : ["\\*", "*\\", "//", "\\+", "+\\],
>       "type"     : ["bool", "int", "double", "float"]
>     ];
> 
> and so on.

The one problem with that example is expressions which would make use of conditionals. Technically, it could work because conditionals have a fixed number of arguments, but it would be hard to read if both sides used conditionals.

int[int] arr = [a > b ? a : b : c > d ? c : d];

You could argue that you could use parenthesis. Well, then it just essentially becomes my syntax, except using parenthesis instead of square brackets [].

int[int] arr = [(a > b ? a : b) : c > d ? c : d];
Compare against:
int[int] arr = [[a > b ? a : b] = c > d ? c : d];