Why isn't bool allowed as AA key type?
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Sun May 29 13:21:11 PDT 2011
"David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> wrote in message
news:irrd5h$hdj$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hello all,
>
> is there a reason bool isn't allowed as key type for associative arrays
> (mtype.c:3995)? The docs don't mention this.
>
> bool-key AAs probably wouldn't be too useful in practice, but it seems
> like a quite arbitrary and unexpected limitation to me - e.g. I would have
> to add special cases to all my Thrift map handling code.
>
> In case this is not on purpose, I'd be happy to put together a pull
> request.
>
It works for me. I use it all the time as a hash set. What version are you
on? I've been using D2, maybe it's a D1 issue? If so, I'd file a bug report.
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