Prototypes (was: Why Strings as Classes?)

[Manfred_Nowak]

Walter Bright wrote:

> I invite you to look at the code in internal/aaA.d and do some
> testing! 

This invitation is a red herring without the offer to change the 
language, because there exists no implementation for AA covering all 
possible use cases.

The bare minimum to get anything out of fiddling with the 
implemenations for AA is the posibility to use the results of adaptions 
without considerable overhead especially for the declarations. However, 
currenty I do not see any elegant solution, because types of 
implementation of maps are given implicitely.

At least something like prototyping seems to be necessary:

|    int[ char[]] map;
|    Prototype= typeof( map);
|    Prototype.implementation= MyAA;

where MyAA is some class type implementing the interface required for 
AA.

Are you willing to do something in this direction?

-manfred
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