Static associative arrays?

[Stewart Gordon]

Dan Wrote:
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> Associative Arrays should be no different really.  I think the 
> issue with this is that the hash function he's using runs on 
> pointers, which means you can't build the hashtables until 
> runtime and therefore can't have static associative arrays 
> without changes.  Am I correct?
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But it should still work on built-in types.  Moreover, even if for a given type doing it at compiletime doesn't work, it could generate a module constructor that does the initialisation.

Stewart.