AA literals/initialisation

Daniel Murphy yebbliesnospam at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 03:32:00 PST 2014


"Jakob Ovrum"  wrote in message news:izbxftjgrkgfehqehznn at forum.dlang.org...
> Do you even understand the problem? This is an extremely complicated thing 
> that you are asking, you can't do anything like it in any other 
> programming language that I'm aware of. We have been making progress in 
> making it work over the years, but for AAs it's at an impasse due to how 
> AAs are implemented in the compiler.

It's not _that_ bad.  There are open pull requests to convert AAs to use 
UFCS instead of the current broken hacks, and crossing from compile to 
run-time just means matching the layout of the runtime AAs in 
AssocArrayExpression::toDt.

> This kind of nagging is not helping anyone, it's just annoying.

I asked him to.  You could at least read the quoted text. 



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