hashed array?

[Don Clugston]

On 12/11/12 20:42, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, November 12, 2012 11:36:38 H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> I contend that the problem with built-in AA's is their implementation,
>> not the fact that they're built-in.
>
> Oh, I agree, but we, as a group, have obviously failed to handle the
> implementation of the built-in AAs properly, and I think that the indications
> are definitely that it's harder to get the built-in AAs right that it would be
> to create a library solution.

I disagree with that 100%.
Built-in AAs in D1 work fine (They could use a lot of improvement, but 
there's nothing wrong with the basic approach, it's quite simple). It 
was the idea that they could be seamlessly moved to a library type that 
was an unmitigated disaster.

And for some reason, there has been a refusal to roll it back to the old 
method which worked.

The thing that really really should change is the bizarre 'magic null' 
semantics of AAs.